I Am Curious (Yellow)

9/6/2018

In the 1960s Sweden underwent an enormous social upheaval, which brought it from a rather rigidly stratified and staid society, which cinephiles might have seen in Ingmar Bergman's earliest films, to a place where the old sexual taboos collapsed and angry class war broke out just like in some other Western European countries. The Swedish filmmaker Vilgot Sjöman decided to reflect those changing mores (and possibly spur some further more-changing himself) with his pseudo-documentary project <i>I am Curious</i>. He developed a script through a great deal of improvisation and then shot enough footage to release it as two films: "Yellow" in 1967, and "Blue" the following year (these titles refer to the colours of the Swedish flag). This review treats both of them. The main actress of these

1/24/2026

This film was released in the year I was born, so now almost sixty years later it’s hardly surprising that it has lost much of it’s punch. It is, however, still an entertaining enterprise that marries the factual and the fictional in a fashion that isn’t always that easy to distinguish. With a solid effort underpinning it all from Lena Nyman this presents us with an interesting exposé on socialist idealism and sexual libertarianism. “Lena” is the sort of have your cake and eat it sort of gal (yes, I did write “cake”). She sees no point in just talking about freedoms, she wants to experience them. She wants to document them and she’s quite capable of swinging her wrecking ball into any relationships that get in her way. “Börje” (Börje Ahlstedt) is living with “Marie” (Marie Göranzon) and th