| Lena Nyman, Vilgot Sj๖man, Peter Lindgren ,
B๖rje Ahlstedt
One of the most popular and controversial films in Swedish history,
I Am Curious brought the sexual revolution to Sweden's silver screen.
While much of the media hype centered on the film's scandalous content,
the film's blending of documentary and fictional footage was equally
shocking for Swedish audiences. Content-wise, the film's more controversial
parts include the defacement of a photograph of Franco and a sequence
where a young couple has sex in front of the royal palace. A film
in two parts, Yellow and Blue each have essentially the same vague
outline of a plot. Lena and her boyfriend engage in lots of liberated
sexual play -- that's the fiction. At the same time, they are working
on a documentary, which is real. In the documentary footage, they
investigate Sweden's political history, the state of its democracy,
and the everyday lives of its citizens. In the Blue version, Lena
journeys far into the deserted north, filming the beautiful wilderness
and revealing a decidedly unmodern Sweden. Blue's most significant
departure from the first part is in this exploration of Sweden's
pastoral ideal. |