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I Am Curious (Yellow)

Original title: Jag är nyfiken - En film i gult
  • 19671967
  • XX
  • 2h 1m
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Lena Nyman in I Am Curious (Yellow) (1967)
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Told in a quasi-documentary style, this companion piece to I Am Curious (Blue) (1968) deals with topics such as class society, non-violent resistance, sex, relationships, and tourism to Fran... Read allTold in a quasi-documentary style, this companion piece to I Am Curious (Blue) (1968) deals with topics such as class society, non-violent resistance, sex, relationships, and tourism to Francoist Spain.Told in a quasi-documentary style, this companion piece to I Am Curious (Blue) (1968) deals with topics such as class society, non-violent resistance, sex, relationships, and tourism to Francoist Spain.
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    • Vilgot Sjöman
    • Vilgot Sjöman(uncredited)
  • Stars
    • Lena Nyman
    • Vilgot Sjöman
    • Börje Ahlstedt
    • Vilgot Sjöman
    • Vilgot Sjöman(uncredited)
  • Stars
    • Lena Nyman
    • Vilgot Sjöman
    • Börje Ahlstedt
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    Lena Nyman in I Am Curious (Yellow) (1967)
    Börje Ahlstedt, Magnus Nilsson, Lena Nyman, and Vilgot Sjöman in I Am Curious (Yellow) (1967)
    Börje Ahlstedt, Peter Lindgren, and Lena Nyman in I Am Curious (Yellow) (1967)
    Börje Ahlstedt and Lena Nyman in I Am Curious (Yellow) (1967)
    Börje Ahlstedt and Lena Nyman in I Am Curious (Yellow) (1967)
    Lena Nyman in I Am Curious (Yellow) (1967)
    Lena Nyman in I Am Curious (Yellow) (1967)
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    Lena Nyman in I Am Curious (Yellow) (1967)
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    Lena Nyman
    Lena Nyman
    • Lena Nyman
    Vilgot Sjöman
    Vilgot Sjöman
    • Vilgot Sjöman
    Börje Ahlstedt
    Börje Ahlstedt
    • Börje
    Peter Lindgren
    Peter Lindgren
    • Rune Nyman
    Chris Wahlström
    • Rune's Woman
    Marie Göranzon
    Marie Göranzon
    • Marie
    Magnus Nilsson
    Magnus Nilsson
    • Magnus
    Ulla Lyttkens
    • Ulla
    Andreas Bellis
    Andreas Bellis
    • Self - Assistant Camera
    Marianne Johnson
    • Self - Script Girl
    Martin Luther King
    Martin Luther King
    • Self
    • (as Martin Luther King Jr.)
    Raymond Lundberg
    • Self - Recording Supervisor
    Lena Malmsjö
    • Self - Production Coordinator
    Christer Oestberg
    • Self - Sound Assistant
    • (as Christer Ostberg)
    Mårten Palme
    • Self
    • (as Mårten 'Mouse' Palme)
    Olof Palme
    Olof Palme
    • Self - Minister of Transport
    Bengt Palmers
    Bengt Palmers
    • Self - Production Assistant
    Tage Sjöborg
    • Self - Sound Engineer
    • (as Tage Sjöberg)
      • Vilgot Sjöman
      • Vilgot Sjöman(uncredited)
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    • Trivia
      On October 6, 1969, Jacqueline Kennedy [Onassis] was leaving a theater showing the film when she was confronted by paparazzi. She gave a photographer a judo flip in the confrontation.
    • Quotes

      Vilgot Sjöman: Do you have to have a religious belief to take part in a non-violent movement?

      Martin Luther King: No, not necessarily.

      Vilgot Sjöman: If you find that a person cannot stand being attacked, what do you do with him? Do you speak to him and explain to him that he cannot be with you any longer?

      Martin Luther King: Well, we always discourage those who cannot be subjected to attack - the one who would retaliate with violence - not to participate in a demonstration. The rules are very rigid in a non-violent movement and we feel that a person who can't take it - a person who cannot submit himself to violence if it comes to him and who would retaliate with violence - should not at all participate and so we discourage that person completely.

      Anna Lena Lisabet Nyman: I like him. He talks about better things than Palme.

    • Crazy credits
      Opening credits as follows: (voiceover, sung) Sandrews makes good films (on screen) "Lena Nyman, theatre student, age 22" (on screen) "Vilgot Sjoeman, director, age 42" (on screen) "Jag aer nyfiken" [I Am Curious], three times (voiceover) Buy our film, the only film that comes in two versions, one yellow, one blue. Same but different, that is true! Unique to view, the one that's blue. Ugly and nice, we repeat it twice: this is the yellow version, yes, the yellow version! (on screen) "en film i gult" [a yellow film]
    • Alternate versions
      A home video version has around twenty minutes of politics edited compared to what was seen in the original 35mm.
    • Connections
      Edited into Red, White and Blue (1971)
    • Soundtracks
      L'Internationale
      (uncredited)

      Music by Pierre Degeyter

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    8/10
    "Message to Humanity: I am fine"
    I am Curious (Yellow) (a film, in near Seussical rhyme, is said right at the start to be available in two versions, Yellow and Blue) was one of those big art-house hits that first was a major sensation in Sweden then a big scandal/cause-celebre in the United States when the one print was held by customs and it went all the way to the Supreme Court. What's potent in the picture today is not so much what might offend by way of what's revealed in the sex or nudity- the director/"actor" Vilgot Sjoman films the various scenes in such a way that there is an abundance of flesh and genitalia and the occasional graphic bit but it's always more-so an intellectual expression than very lust-like- but the daring of the attempt at a pure 'metafilm' while at the same time making a true statement on the state of affairs in Sweden. Who knew such things in a generally peaceful country (i.e. usually neutral in foreign affairs and wars) could be so heated-up politically? At least, that's part of Sjoman's aim here.

    Like a filmmaker such as Dusan Makavajev with some of his works like W.R. (if not as surreal and deranged) or to a slightly lesser extent Bertolucci, Sjoman is out to mix politics and sex (mostly politics and social strata) around in the midst of also making it a comment on embodying a character in a film. The two characters, Lena and Borje, have a hot-cold relationship in the story of the film, where Lena is a "curious" socialist-wannabe who demonstrates in the street for nonviolence and 'trains' sort of in a cabin in the woods to become a fully functioning one, while at the same time maybe too curious about her car salesman boyfriend. And as this is going on, which is by itself enough for one movie, Sjoman inserts himself and his crew from time to time as they are making this story on film (there's even a great bit midway through where, as if at a rock concert, title cards fill in during a break in shooting who the crew are, negating having to use end credits!) Then with this there's a whole other dynamic as Sjoman gives an actual performance, not just a "hey, I'm the director playing the director" bit.

    At first, one might not get this structure and that I am Curious (Yellow) is just a film where Lena is a documentary interviewer asking subjects about their thoughts on class, socialism, Spain and Franco, and once in a while we see Lena's father or Bjore. But Sjoman does something interesting: the structure is so slippery as the viewer one has to stay on toes; it's impressive that so many years on a picture can surprise with not being afraid to mix dramatic narrative, documentary, film-within-a-film, and even a serious interview with Martin Luther King, who also acts as a quasi-guru for Lena. It might not always be completely coherent analysis politically, but it doesn't feel cheating or even with much of a satirical agenda like in a Godard picture; the satire Sjoman is after is akin to a Godard but on a whole other wavelength. His anarchy is playful but not completely loaded with semantics or tricks that could put off the less initiated viewer.

    If I Am Curious (Yellow) stands up as an intellectual enterprise and a full-blown trip into exploring sex in a manner that was and is captivating for how much is shown and how comfortable it all seems to be for the actors, it isn't entirely successful, I think, as an emotional experience. Where Bergman had it down to a T with making a purely emotional film with deconstruction tendencies, Sjoman is more apt at connecting with specific ideas while not actually directing always very well when it comes time to do big or subtle scenes with the actors. Occasionally it works if only for the actors, Lena Nyman (mostly spectacular here in a performance that asks of her to make an ambitious but confused kid into someone sympathetic and vulnerable even) and Borje Ahlstedt (a great realistic counterpoint to the volatile Lena), but some 40 years later its hard to completely connect with everything that happens in the inner-film of Lena and Borje since (perhaps intentionally) Sjoman fills it up with clichés (Borje has a girlfriend and kid, will he leave her, how will Lena reconcile her father) and a heavy-handed narration from his starlet of sorts.

    And yet, for whatever faults Sjoman may have, ironically considering he means it to be a comment on itself, I Am Curious (Yellow) holds up beautifully as an artistic experiment in testing the waters of what could be done in Swedish cinema, or testing what couldn't be and bending it for provocative and comedic usage. I'd even go as far as to say it's influential, and has probably been copied or imitated in more ways than one due to it being such a cult phenomenon at its time (a specific technique used, with the film rewinding towards the end, is echoed in poorer usage in Funny Games), and should be seen by anyone looking into getting into avant-garde or meta-film-making. If it's not quite as outstanding an artistic leap as W.R. or Last Tango, it's close behind.
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      • March 10, 1969 (United States)
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