A french actor comes across a beautiful young woman bending over the corpse of a murdered nightclub owner. Lena, aged twenty, wants to know all she can about life and reality. In blue, lena confronts issues of religion, sexuality, and the prison system, while at the same time exploring her own personal relationships. Yellow and blue are the colors of the swedish flag. I am curious yellow i am curious blue set the criterion collection gunstig ein. Nov 2, 20 i am curious blue 1968 free full films english subtitles the same movie with the same characters, cast and crew as i am curious yellow, but with some different scenes and a different political slant. Excerpt from the oncebanned film i am curious yellow. Curious george is a 2006 animated adventure comedy film based on the book series written by h. It is illegal to do it or even think about doing it with love. In 196667, with 100,000 meters of blackandwhite film and freedom to shoot without a script, director vilgot sjoman created a motion picture so rangy and multilayered that it became two separate, overlapping movies released a year apart. Vilgot sjomans swedish movie, i am curious yellow, having been found to be not. Release date 2003 production date 1967 title variation i am curious yellow title on container. Read the i am curious yellow movie synopsis, view the movie trailer, get cast and crew information, see movie photos, and more on movies.
Two hours of this movie will drive thoughts of sex out of your mind for weeks. The film, while containing explicit nudity and sexual situations, is toned down from its more racy predecessor i m curious yellow. It is the year 2117 and sex for its own sake is now the social norm. Meanwhile, the actors, director and crew are shown in a humorous parallel plot about the making of the film and their reactions to the story and each other. I am curious yellow jag ar nyfiken en film i gult 1967 uc. Blue omits much of the class consciousness and nonviolence interviews of. I am curious yellow film by sjoman 1967 britannica. I am curious yellow from sweden the new york times. I am curious yellow stepping away from raunchy comedy, the swedish attitude toward sexuality can be felt in more experimental titles, as well.
I am curious yellow jag ar nyfiken en film i gult 1967. While conducting a research project on swedish class structure, a beautiful sociologist meets a man with whom she engages in some extensive. Following an anticensorship battle in us courts, i am curious yellow was finally allowed to be shown on american screens in 1969. Already controversial in its native sweden and throughout europe for its frank leftist criticism of democratic socialism, its 1969 release in the u. I am curious is a unique little film that exists in two versions, yellow and blue, two films highly recognized for their influence in the sexual liberation of cinema. The political focus in blue is personal relationships, religion, prisons and sex. One reason it did so well was that it became popular among film stars to be seen going to the film. It was directed by matthew ocallaghan, who replaced jun falkenstein. Yellow 1967 starring lena nyman and vilgot sjoman on dvd and bluray. Alem disso, contem elementos documentais, por exemplo, ele apresenta uma breve aparicao do dr. If your bag is shelling out several bucks to witness phallus flaccid, then i am curious yellow is the flick for you. Look whos flying into the blue the same movie with the same characters, cast and crew as i am curious yellow, but with some different scenes and a different political slant.
I am curious blue jag ar nyfiken en film i blatt 1968. Jag ar nyfiken, en film i gul videorecording i am curious. With lena nyman, vilgot sjoman, borje ahlstedt, peter lindgren. But it you hope for anything else that the movie might be erotic, for example, or even funny, forget it. This landmark document of swedish society during the sexual revolution has been declared both obscene and revolutionary. Database of movie trailers, clips and other videos for i am curious yellow 1967. This weeks landmark film doesnt seem to be unhinging the populace. Trouble ensues when people begin watching a film from the 1960s against loveless sex. While conducting a research project on swedish class structure, a beautiful sociologist meets a man with whom she engages in some extensive lovemaking sessions. It was the 12th most popular film in the us in 1969 and the highestgrossing foreignlanguage film in the united states and canada of alltime with a gross of. She and her boyfriendproducerdirector did street interviews about these issues. Usa i am curious blue, west germany ich bin neugierig blau, i am curious, uk i am curious blue. In this scene from i am curious yellow we get to see how the swedish explored scenes featuring sex i found it interesting that focusing was centered around the stark contrasts in light, pay attention to the framing of the scene, and connection between the two actors.
The film begins by informing the viewers that this is a film of two parts i am curious yellow is followed up by i am curious blue, which was released in 1968 and was initially meant to be combined with this one to form a three and a half hour long masterpiece. A parallel film to vilgot sjomans controversial i am curiousyellow, i am curiousblue also follows young lena on her journey of selfdiscovery. Produced in sweden, this film was originally meant to be one long film but was cut into two versions. May 04, 2009 the same movie with the same characters, cast and crew as i am curious yellow, but with some different scenes and a different political slant. She collects information on everyone and everything, storing her findings in an enormous archive. Jun 22, 2014 the film begins by informing the viewers that this is a film of two parts i am curious yellow is followed up by i am curious blue, which was released in 1968 and was initially meant to be combined with this one to form a three and a half hour long masterpiece. I am curious yellow is a companion film to the film i am curious blue 1968. Very very rare, one of the first example of explicit sex in mainstream.
Please confirm or enter it below to complete your profile. Ann tries to impress donalds married exgirlfriend at a dinner party. This is a digitized version of an article from the timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. A political film with a sexual twist, i am curious yellow blurs the line between fiction and reality.
Blue omits much of the class consciousness and nonviolence interviews of the first. Other articles where i am curious yellow is discussed. But by todays standards, i am curious yellow has to be considered tame, but at that time, it helped to open the floodgates toward more explicit films, such as the xrated best picture midnight cowboy 1969 and bernardo bertoluccis last tango in paris 1972, and more hardcore pornography with oral sex, penetration, and ejaculaton. Those are the colors of the swedish flag, and sjomans film. Vilgot sjomans experimental fusion of sex and politics, i am curious yellow, is uniquely notorious amongst european art films. Star of iconic 1960s film i am curious yellow lena nyman. Directed by vilgot sjoman, the film features a cast that includes vilgot sjoman, peter lindgren, lena nyman and borje ahlstedt. While conducting a research project on swedish class structure, a beautiful sociologist meets a man with whom she. Borje ahlstedt and lena nyman in i am curious yellow 1967 lena nyman in i am curious yellow 1967 borje ahlstedt. Lena, the films protagoniststar is a true woman of the 60s.
All the while, yellow acts as a personal documentary exploring lenas life her home life, her loves, her political views, her view of herself. Jul 17, 2004 vilgot sjomans i am curious released in two parts, yellow and blue, 1969 and 1970 primarily concerns a liberal woman, lena, and her thorough solicitation of the swedish public. She is a complete person complex, flawed, contradictory, happy, sad, curious. While blue is a bit more political, yellow is the clear winner as it features much more nudity and sex, as well as lena nyman having a conversation with archive footage of martin. I am curious yellow excerpt 1967 excerpt from the oncebanned film i am curious yellow. She experiments with relationships, political activism, and meditation. The film, while containing explicit nudity and sexual situations, is toned down from its more racy predecessor im curiousyellow. Movies like i am curious 1968 if you like i am curious you are looking for erotic, sexual and atmospheric movies about with politics, sex, money, economics, socialism, strong sexual content and sexual relations themes of drama genre shot in sweden. I am curious blue, whose original swedish title, jag ar nyfiken en film i blatt, translates as i am curious a film in blue, is a 1968 swedish film directed by vilgot sjoman and starring lena nyman as a character named after herself. I am curious yellow jag ar nyfiken en film i gult 1968.
I am curious yellow extras introduction by vilgot sjoman 01. With marlo thomas, ted bessell, cindy eilbacher, william christopher. The same movie with the same characters, cast and crew as i am curious yellow, but with some different scenes and a different political slant. I am curious yellow was the first film out of the gate, and upon its release it pushed the boundaries of what was considered palatable to the masses in other words, united states customs agents took possession of the film as it was brought into the country, after which it was subject to a heated court battle that revealed both. Lena nyman from i am curious yellow jag ar nyfiken en film i gult, 1967. Jag ar nyfiken en film i gult, meaning i am curious. I am curious yellow 1967 vilgot sjoman, vilgot sjoman. Ken kaufman wrote the screenplay based on a story by him and mike werb.
A pivotal film in both swedish cinema and the history of american censorship, i am curious yellow 1967 is a film that may seem challenging to modern viewers without. It tells the story of lena lena nyman, a searching and. Blue omits much of the class consciousness and nonviolence interviews of the first version. Lena was in search of social issues and their answers. May 05, 2012 in this scene from i am curious yellow we get to see how the swedish explored scenes featuring sex i found it interesting that focusing was centered around the stark contrasts in light, pay attention to the framing of the scene, and connection between the two actors. A film in yellow is a 1967 swedish erotic drama film written and directed by vilgot sjoman, starring sjoman and lena nyman. He also successfully appealed the 1976 conviction of actor harry reems on federal charges of conspiracy to distribute pornography across state. Dec 06, 2017 a french actor comes across a beautiful young woman bending over the corpse of a murdered nightclub owner.
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