I Am Curious (Yellow)

It's unusual that this film radically destroys typical cinematic conventions yet remains so boring and hollow. The meta-narrative is never conceived of in any unifying way, the film's politics are certainly not sophisticated, even when showing clips of Dr. King, and the sexual exploration seems haphazard and devoid of any real passion. It's a rather pathetic attempt to emulate radical French New Wave without any of the intellectual fire. The finest moment was the quite fitting depressing ending.

Hilariously absurd. It's not for everyone's tastes and the constant winking at the camera can get overbearing but there's a wonderful mix of fact, fiction and humanity that drives the film.

Nice mixture of documentary, formlessness, sex, and all the things that I like to keep me watching.

I remember when this first came out in the U.S.--it created quite a stir at the time. Of course, it would create no such stir now. Its utter naïveté is rather sweet, actually--most of the time--though it does rather overstay its welcome. The only movie I think I've ever seen where scabies figure into the plot.

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What is this, really? I mean, the interviews on the street are fine, so are the few normal scenes, but lacking plot, story, whatever, it all becomes indifferent. And politically, this is just such a lame way to try to convince anyone. And I say that although I share many of the basic beliefs that are put to the fore here. Interesting structure with the meta-thing, but it doesn't help it much.

an essential film of the 1960's

sweden, Olof Palme, Martin Luther King, Franco, social democracy, labour, spain, soviet union, international brigades, non-violence, intellectuals, feminism, anti-militarism, consumption, Bergman, Godard, social class, yoga, meditation, sex, resistance, conformism, conservatism, media, nuclear war, vietnam, neutrality, questionnaire, affluence, family, the Internationale, cinema, documentary, leisure, poetry, pretension, civil rights movement, 1967

same sixties energy that there is in Mikko Niskanen's films but even better (yellow)

Pretentious and dated faux-Godard.

Azul e Amarelo são absolutamente complementares e ambos espetaculares, mas acho o Amarelo mais caótico que o Azul porque o assisti primeiro já que é o Azul que cobre todas as pontas soltas. Um documento sem igual da Suécia dos anos 60. DVD Cult Classic.

(...)Nach dem Abspann von I Am Curious war ich wirklich erleichtert, dass ich nicht 1968 leben muss. Ich bin nicht verpflichtet, permanent Vietnam oder Franco zu stammeln und ich muss auch nicht das schönste Geheimnis der Welt mit jedem x-beliebigen teilen. (Dazu gibts unsere Film List "1968" auf cinegeek.de

Was seen as incredibly risque, both in terms of storytelling, sex and politics when it came out. Has actually held up surprisingly well; yeah, it's naive, and the bits where it turns into metafiction of itself are probably unnecessary Goddard-lite, but a genuinely intriguing movie and still depressingly on target in some of the issues it tackles. Glad I saw this again.