I am curious (yellow)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | I am curious (yellow) |
| Original title | Jag är nyfiken - en film i gult |
| Country of production | Sweden |
| original language | Swedish |
| Publishing year | 1967 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Vilgot Sjoman |
| script | Vilgot Sjoman |
| production | Sandrews Stockholm |
| camera | Peter Wester |
| cut | Wic Kjellin |
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I'm curious (yellow) , original Swedish title: Jag är nyfiken - gul , is a Swedish feature film with documentary elements in black and white. Directed by Vilgot Sjöman , who also wrote the script. In the Federal Republic of Germany, the film was first released on March 1, 1968. Almost at the same time, the director shot a sequel with the same crew under the title Jag är nyfiken - blå , in German I am curious (blue) , which was initially launched in the German-speaking countries under the title Sie will's know . The colors "yellow" and "blue" represent the colors in the Swedish national flag .
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The 20-year-old Swede Lena Nyman still lives in the household of her father, a philistine from the working class, in his cramped, shabby apartment. His daughter doesn't think much of him because he deserted in the Spanish Civil War . The young woman is unusually curious for her age. In her small room, file boxes and files are piled up with archive material that she has collected herself. She intends to make a popular science report of it one day. But first she needs more information. It is not only about her numerous lovers, with whom she lives out her sexual fantasies in all possible and impossible places, but also about answers to questions about the Swedish welfare state and problems that are supposedly burning under the nails of young people.
Armed with writing utensils and a tape recorder, Lena goes in search of people who she believes could fit into her grid and showered them with provocative questions. Excerpts from interviews that the director conducted with real people from contemporary history are also inserted into the film. B. with Martin Luther King , the Russian poet Evgeni Evtuschenko and the Swedish politician Olof Palme . To a large extent, the answers seem frustrating to depressing for Lena. In order to come back to other thoughts, she indulges in free love again and again between the interviews . No place is too bad for her to practice, be it the square in front of the royal palace, the high branches of an old tree, a pond in the park or just the floor of her room.
Reviews
“Director Sjöman combines the episodes of her (Note: Meant is the main character Lena) educational trip with sexual-political theses and film-critical excursions to a satirical picture arch full of tastelessness, subtleties and provocations. A disrespectful as well as half-baked pamphlet that reveals a lot of Sjöman's private obsessions, but beyond that it is hardly informative and, due to inadequate processing, gives little intellectual or aesthetic pleasure. "
"Ruthless and one-sided polemics against political, social and sexual taboos, which, confusing and superficial, must be rejected as wrong and tasteless because of their sexual aggressiveness and the associated speculations."
source
- Program for the film ( Illustrierter Film-Kurier , Vereinigte Verlagsgesellschaft Franke & Co. KG, Munich, order number 247)
Web links
- I Am Curious (Yellow) in the Internet Movie Database (English)