'Blue' Is 'Yellow' Despite Extra Gall

By EMERSON BATDORFF

The only thing great about I Am Curious (Blue)" is the gall of its director Vilgot Sjoman.

He got so badly carried away with that fat girl and some Swedish scenery that when the cameras stopped grinding he had enough film for two movies.

He bethought himself of the Swedish flag, which fortunately has only two colors. blue and yellow, and

carved out one movie called "I Am Curious (Yellow)." Later he worked on the remaining film and carved out another movie, only it is the

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same as the first, and called it "I Am Curious (Blue).”

THERE will be no more, the flag having run out of colors and Sjoman having run out of exposed film..

The blue version is by no means a sequel to the yellow version. It is what we may call a simuel, the two of them having been made simultaneously.

"I Am Curious (Blue)" thus is nothing but the faces, etc., on the cutting faces, etc., on the cutting room floor after "I Am Curious (Yellow)" was made. A director has to have a lot of guts to do this.

It is essentially a nonstory that Sjoman offers here the

second time around, still featuring this young fat girl who goes around the country asking people questions, or sleeping with people when not asking them questions..

Sjoman, ever the egotist, as we would expect of a man who makes a whole bad film out of the leavings of his previous bad movie, enters into "I Am Curious (Blue)" from time to time panting beardedly after the fat girl.

THIS MOVIE doesn't go quite as far as the first version.

"Do you think Sweden has

class distinctions?" the fat girl asks here and there. Various people answer her.

She also asks a lot of nonzingy sex questions. Pimple-faced youths respond.

The movie has the compulsory lesbian scene in it to make you feel you got your money's worth.

I will say this for the picture. It is fixed up well with dubbing. The English intonation is excellent. Now if they just had something to say. How many times can a man profitably see the same dirty movie?