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'm curious erotic socialism

Jag är nyfiken . Sweden, 1967-68.

Director: Vilgot Sjöman

Cast: Lena Nyman , Vilgot Sjöman, Börje Ahlstedt

Subjects interest: sexual freedom, free love

Synopsis:

Lena, a young idealistic military in various causes and ask the Swedes their views on various social and sexual. Your erotic and emotional life is divided between Vilgot, the director who filmed his activities as a militant, and a man father a child.

Comment:

The mixture of reality and fiction resolved I'm curious as current, as would twenty years later Victor Erice and Abbas Kiarostami , Vilgot Sjöman constructs a fictional film which deals with the filming of a documentary about Swedish society and gender. There is no writer credited as probably the actors, who play themselves, including the director himself, taking an active part at least, the design of characters we can not know to what extent are they or not. Lena Presumably, the main character develops in real life activity report of inequalities and defense of feminism and social and sexual freedom that we see carried out during the film. It is also assumed that she and the director are a couple open like you see on the screen.

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the blog I talked about love Survey, a documentary Pasolini very similar in gathering opinions from ordinary people about sexual issues, but I'm curious metalinguistic provides a much bolder game and leaves completely hand, the supposed neutrality of Pasolini's film (supposedly only because the director makes clear his views on the issues involved) and assumes that this is a film of denunciation and a whole political manifesto raises interesting questions as for example if the emerging Swedish tourism in Spain during the English helps or if he is a complicity with the Franco dictatorship.

View today, is also a very educational film about the 60's, the counterculture and the questioning of many values \u200b\u200bthat until then, and, unfortunately, today, considered and are considered immovable. By then it was assumed not as is done now that the company would always be unequal, but that for years made a major effort to lessen the gap between rich and poor, and the rebellious spirit was also applied to sexuality . As a legacy of those years, homosexuality (which also explores Lena maintaining relations with a girl), masturbation or female sexual desire is no longer a deviations to travel to see, at least in the developed world, with some normality. However, on other issues, as a concept of partnership based on intellectual and emotional links, not only or necessarily on sexual fidelity, I'm curious is today, perhaps more than ever, a very daring film for raising the sexual learning a girl who has relationships with two men at once, without their owners consider it to be her lovers, a behavior that can only be considered anachronistic today.

Top Scenes: Lena

• question several passersby about social class differences in Sweden, if the Swedish society is class or not, one respondent replied: if you are naked there is no class distinctions; dressed people and you have a class society .

• She and a companion decided to rob a church membership and deal with the bishop, who shed his robe and underwear left in a kind of performance.

Anecdotes:

• produced an extraordinary controversy in its international release, especially in the U.S., where he be kidnapped by the censorship and could not adopted later debut a judicial sentence. Was considered pornographic in their day and the director reads the second part of the film insults and threats contained in letters received by viewers outraged after seeing the first chapter.

• In Spain, due to his criticism of the Franco regime, could not be released until 1978, after the death of the dictator.

• The film is divided into two parts with the names of the two colors of the Swedish flag: and I Am Curious Blue I Am Curious Yellow , which was released in its day separately and are now published in video in the same way.
  

About
director:

Vilgot Sjöman (1924 - 2006) was born into a working class family in Stockholm, after getting a scholarship, he studied film in the U.S. and start a career as writer and director. During the 60's and 70's, after working with the leading Swedish film of the era, Ingmar Bergman in Winter Light, conducted a series of movies with provocative themes such as incest, homosexuality and rape, culminating in the most successful international scandal, I'm curious . Later, his films gradually leave premiered Sjöman abroad and focused on work for Swedish television.

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My Life in Pink: Child's Play

Ma vie en rose. Belgium, 1997.

Director: Alain Berliner

Screenwriters: Alain Berliner, Chris Vander Stappen

Cast: Michèle Laroque, Jean-Philippe Écoffey, Hélène Vincent, Georges Du Fresne

Subjects of interest: transsexualism

Synopsis:

Ludovic

is seven years old and likes to wear women's clothes. His parents are disturbing when what they consider a game seems to be more serious for the boy, who speaks of becoming a woman when she is older and married with another child in the neighborhood. The extravaganza will start small to cause problems for him and all his family.

Comment:

If issues such as homosexuality and transsexuality are controversial in itself, let alone when it comes to minors. Sexual life does not legally exist before 18 years and still enduring the idea that any information we are given to children about sexuality amounts to a propaganda that can alter sexual orientation even smaller. In the same way is not as natural for a child to ask questions about their sexual identity; Ludovic is a seven year old absolutely convinced that it is a girl and her male genitalia are just the result of an error dreams which can be easily repaired later in life. Many transsexuals report that very young always felt the opposite sex, however, tend to filter all childhood memories and make them more or less relevant in terms of who we are or we believe when we get to adulthood, as well until recently only admitted when I was transsexual accompanied by a surgical operation was required to recognize its status as transsexual to respond to this profile have always felt in the wrong body, so many transsexuals may say what is expected of them, maybe not exactly answer the truth about what they thought and felt in its infancy.

If it is rather difficult to know if in reality cases such as the film shows children claiming to be clear that women at a young age is even more complicated to interpret this properly. Is the child going through a temporary phase of confusion or actually be a transsexual in adult life? In fact the opposite case, a girl who for a time would prefer to dress in baby clothes and not feel very happy with her sex, much less be a source of worry for their parents, would not automatically assume that the child is lesbian or transgender, while a male any deviation from the role assigned to her sex is considered a symptom of homosexual or transsexual.

The great success of the film is alternate lights and shadows, not to raise an idyllic and unreal situation in which being different does not involve any problem nor carry the excess ink showing the lives of those who are different as a succession of calamities and suffering without hope is possible, as the recently released film XXY . Ludovic's parents are neither heroes nor monsters, the rest of its surroundings, a bourgeois, conservative district, is acting more Manichean as hypocritical and repressive. In fact, when the custom of dressing little woman causes her expulsion from school, the film does not clarify whether this is a public or private school of a religious nature. In the first case, this discrimination would not be credible.

Another strength of Ma vie en rose is that it shows that they are adults who cause children to see or perceive others themselves as different and reject these differences. What for small game is just a cause celebre for the elderly; their children will soon imitate their behavior and be intolerant.



Top Scenes:

• face their problems in front of an environment that does not understand and I wish he were otherwise, Ludovic takes refuge in his imagination, that her favorite doll, Pam comes to life and helps you become the woman he wants to be.

Anecdotes:

• was a success critics and won many prizes in festivals as well as European film award for best screenplay, nominated for a Cesar for best first feature (since it is a co-production with France), the BAFTA for Best Foreign Language Film English and, the icing, the Golden Globe in the same category.

• The original title Ma vie en rose, is a paraphrase of La vie en rose, the famous song by Edith Piaf . And English, also in French, this title has a double meaning: sweet my life or my life as a homosexual . My life pink is also the title of a pop song by The Romeos English.
  

About the director:

Alain Berliner was born in Brussels in 1963. After a couple of short films, his directing debut long occurs My Life in Pink, a degree of international impact. The following year failed to repeat the same success with The wall, a parable about the political problems of his country. His last film was released among us Passion of Mind, starring Demi Moore . He has also worked as a screenwriter and occasional producer in films and television series.

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LITTLE GIRL too young for ...

Pretty baby. USA, 1978.

Director: Louis Malle

Writer: Polly Platt

Cast: Keith Carradine, Brooke Shields, Susan Sarandon

Subjects of interest: prostitution, pedophilia

Synopsis:

Violet, twelve years old, born in a brothel in New Orleans in early twentieth century. The small waiting impatiently for the moment to follow the footsteps of his mother while she flirts with Bellocq, a bohemian photographer who likes to immortalize prostitutes. Following the initiation into prostitution when the madam sells her virginity, Violet stability is shattered when his mother receives a marriage proposal from one of its customers and leaves the girl in the whorehouse.

Comment:

do not know if a film like Little , curiously in his day went rather unnoticed, he could have shot today. In any case, not in a major Hollywood studio. First it addresses such a controversial issue such as child prostitution, and unlike other films that deal with sex with minors, as Lolita, not a teen actress used a nearly adult female, but a twelve year old girl that actually has a girl's body and seems to twelve years. But mostly, it speaks of the item without drama and without carrying out a moral. The film introduces us to the atmosphere of the brothel, which hardly leave only at the end of history, to understand that Violet, the baby daughter of a prostitute and that the world knows only that the brothel, sees consumers , the environment and the vocabulary of the brothel with a total everyday. At no time is conscious of being exploited and we can say he looks forward to the day that will be initiated to paid sex with adult men, which will make it a woman equal to all the women you know.

scenes that could be rough, like seeing the girl imitate lewd gestures and movements of prostitutes and use their vocabulary rude, or auction of the virginity of the girl, which is a kind of initiation ritual or even a holiday for workers in the brothel, the show naturally and without any kind of moralism, also helped by a superb job in photography by the master Sven Nykvist . Nothing is described as monstrous nor is there a desire to amaze or shock. In fact, in the period in which the action, almost a hundred years in the southern United States and many other parts of the world were frequently arranged marriages of children, particularly girls, twelve, thirteen or fourteen . And of course there was not so clearly as now the idea of \u200b\u200bchild abuse. The film does not care about customers Violet among them may be pedophiles, but surely others that attract the curiosity of sleeping with a girl as a simple alternative without seeing in it a great moral transgression: the minds of the time like all the sex is a sin and socially frowned upon, do to a girl not too much worse things.

A film can be criticized for not developing too his main male character, the photographer Bellocq, or explain his relationship with the girl, Violet loves him the way he can be a girl her age. In principle it is not taken seriously until the small, after being abandoned by his mother, he leaves the brothel and welcomed her into her house, it is unknown whether out of compassion or because he feels desire for her. Initiate a curious relationship halfway between the sentimental and the parent-child couples whose ambiguity does not resolve the script. It is the spectator who, as usual in the Louis Malle film, you have to make their own discretion regarding the history and character.

Top Scenes:

• 's virginity is auctioned Violet small to clients of the brothel under the watchful direction of the madam and the presence of all prostitutes of the area, including the mother of the girl. Finally, the highest bidder up to the room with her
  

Anecdotes:

• The male character is inspired by EJ Bellocq, photographer actual photograph was engaged in settings that prostitutes themselves chose.
  

• was presented at the 1978 Cannes festival, which won a technical award. He was also nominated for an Academy Award for best original music. About

director:

Louis Malle (Thumeries, France, 1932 - Los Angeles 1995) was one of the great innovators of French cinema in the late 50's and early 60's, though always considered outside the movement nouvelle vague. At the time, the amorality of his work and the absence of prosecutions and convictions to characters with free or unorthodox sexual behaviors caused much controversy, especially in titles like lovers or The heart murmur. The controversy, in this case for political reasons, Lacombe Lucien raised moves him to emigrate in the 70 United States, where it rolls and Little Atlantic city. Sexuality in his films is shown as a powerful force, amoral openly displayed or morbidity, with a large normal.

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