Has anyone here seen "I am Curious (Blue or Yellow)". It was a swedish film made at the hieght of their sexual revolution, and when it was released in the USA it was fought against. Eventually the Supreme Court said that freedom of speech won and it was released under a brand new rating symbol "X" which was invented for the movie. While it is deffinitly not pornagraphic or even that extreme compared to these days (I'd say there are worse "R"-movies now) it is very intresting. I also think it extenuiates the stereotype that all Swedish woman are absolutley gorgeous! Anyone seen it? Care to comment? It's part of the criterion collection if anyone is lucky enough to have acess to a full collection of that. (sorry for typos- tired and dont care)
The only place I have ever seen it for sale strangely enough was a Barnes N' Nobel bookstore. If you have a Barnes near you that sells DVD's ask if they have a Criterion Collection section (they proabbably will behind the counter) and they might have it.
I was interested in how "I am Curious Yellow" dealt with the fact of income inequality. Lena asked those at the low end of the income scale what they thought of it. Most had difficulty understanding what she was talking about. For me the sex in "I am Curious Yellow" was unerotic, mechanical, and vaguely distasteful.
"I am Curious Yellow" is really a satire about Swedish politics and culture in the '60s. It just happened to have some on-screen nudity and sex (not really very erotic) and was labeled pornography in the United States. The titles colors (yellow and blue) are the two colors of the Swedish flag.
i always wondered about that. i saw it a long time ago. i think it was when i was living in portland oregon in the 80s. and i went expecting to get a hard on, cause that was what i was told it was, but then i was like huh? what is this really? glad to know, as i suspect but had no way of knowing then, that it actually was about something like that. makes sense now of what made little to none to me then. (of course de'sade's eroticism was political satyre of HIS contemporaries too, at least for the most part, though at the same time consciously and deliberately erotic as well)
i saw both parts of this movie about three years ago. i was around ten or eleven years of age, when all hell broke out here in the u.s.a. over it. i found it much a do about nothing. a lot of us americans, can go apeshit over the littlest things!
