Cinema
I Am Curious (Yellow)
Jag är nyfiken – en film i gult
Vilgot Sjöman · 1967
Synopsis
A filmmaker, playing himself, wants to make a portrait of Sweden with the young woman who shares his life as its heroine. Lena, a drama student, lives with her father in a small Stockholm flat; microphone in hand, she questions passers-by about social classes, quizzes tourists back from Franco's Spain, talks with Olof Palme, and files everything away in immense archives. She has an affair with Börje, a car salesman. Gradually, the film crew and the director themselves enter the frame.
Context
Shot without a screenplay, the film was at first meant to be only one, of three and a half hours; the material was divided into two films with the same actors, this one and a second in 1968, whose titles carry the colours of the Swedish flag. In the United States, the print was seized by customs and a jury declared it obscene; a federal appeals court overturned this judgment almost a year later. The publisher Grove Press, which distributed it, published the screenplay. Maryland maintained its ban, which a divided Supreme Court let stand in 1971. The film earned some twenty-eight million dollars in the United States and Sweden.
Who it is for
One hundred and twenty-two minutes, in Swedish and English. One does not always know whether one is watching the fiction, the report or the shoot.
Prizes and reception
The biggest success of a foreign film in the United States up to that time, and the Guldbagge for Best Actress for Lena Nyman.
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