I Am Curious (Yellow) (Grove B-184)

Lena Nyman, who lives with her father in a small apartment in Stockholm, is driven by a burning passion for social justice - and promiscuity - and a need to understand the world, people and relationships. Her little room is filled with trunks, like an alphabetical index, full of information, newspaper clippings and tapes. On the walls hangs pictures of concentration camps and a portrait of Franco. She walks around the town and interview people about different topics, like money, sex, religion and politics. The relationship with her father, who during a very short period, went down to Spain to fight Franco, is problematic partly because his drinking habits. Through her father she meets the sleek Bill (Börje) who works at a menswear shop and who voted for the Rightist Party. They begin a love affair, but soon it turns out that Bill already has another woman and a young daughter. Lena becomes angry and goes to the country on a bicycle holiday. In a cabin in the woods, she is trying to live ascetic, meditate and perform yoga. Bill (Börje) is looking for her driving in his new car. A sex act degenerates and begins to argue and fight. In the morning, Borje leaves her and extremely promiscuous Lena fantasizes about how she's binding all of her previous 23 lovers to a tree, shooting Börje with a rifle and finally cut his penis off. On the bike ride home, an imaginary conversation between Lena and Martin Luther King in which she apologizes for not being able to be a nonviolence advocate, is depicted. Once back home, the story resolves more and more as the film crew and Vilgot Sjoman gets himself a greater role in the film as the director who is jealous of Bill and Lena's relationship.