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Jag är Nyfiken - En Film i Blatt
I am Curious (Blue)
Jag är Nyfiken - Bla
Sweden 1968
produced by Göran Lindgren, Lena Malmsjö (executive) for Sandrews
directed by Vilgot Sjöman
starring Lena Nyman, Vilgot Sjöman, Börje Ahlsted, Sonja Lindgren, Hans Hellberg, Bim Warne, Bertil Wikström, Marie Göranzon, Peter Lindgren, Gudrun Östbye, Ulla Lyttkens, Gunnel Broström, Magnus Nilsson, Gun Jönsson, Pierre Fränckel, Hanne Sandemose, Frej Lindqvist, Helle Sandemose, Maj Hultén, Hagge Geigert
written by Vilgot Sjöman, music by Bengt Ernryd, Bengt Palmers
review by Mike Haberfelner
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A companion piece of I am
Curious (Yellow) from the previous year, and even simultanously
filmed, I am Curious (Blue) shares (more or less) the story, the
two levels of narration and even some of the scenes with that film:
Once again, Lena (Lena Nyman) is the lover and lead actress of director
Vilgot Sjöman who slowly falls for her co-star Börje Ahlstedt - whom she
got the role in the film in the first place - on one level, while in the
film-within-the-film she is the naive, leftist political activist who
questions everything. Only this time around, she takes a trip to the
country to find her mother (Gudrun Östbye) but is never quit sure if she
wants to find her ... so she instead explores the relationship of church
and state, sexual politics, homosexuality, welfare prisons, and and and
...
Eventually she returns to town again, to stay with her best friend and
part-time lover Hans (Hans Hellberg), who like her believes in
non-violence ... then though she sees him getting quite violent against
his girlfriend Bim (Bim Warne) in scenes that almost resemble a rape,
which somehow puts her off.
Then she learns she has got scabies, which leads to the break-up with
her current lover Börje ... but in the last scene she is finally reunited
with her mother.
Somehow, I am Curious (Blue) never manages to pack quite the
same punch as I am Curious
(Yellow). True, the two films are shot in a very similar
avant-garde fashion, but where I
am Curious (Yellow) frequently goes over-the-top in defying the
cinematic conventions, this film is much more subtle, but as a result also
relatively toothless. That doesn't mean that I am Curious (Blue) is
essentially a bad film, it's still an interesting historic document of the
late 1960's - inculding sexual revolution and everything -, it just lacks
the freshness, the timelessness and inventiveness of the other film -
which is a bit of a pity.
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