When 73-year-old bon vivant Jean Pigozzi —his friends call him Johnny—signs on to Zoom from a couch in his home in Rome to chat about I Am Curious Johnny , the new HBO Max documentary about his unusual life, he tells me he “can’t complain.”

At least, not for a few more months.

“I have a thing,” he explains. “One year I complain about everything, and one year I complain about nothing. So this is a non-complaining year. But I make a list of all the things that I haven’t complained about, and come January 1, 2026, my list will be very long, and I’ll be complaining for three or four days in a row. All these things that I suffered through and that I didn’t complain about.”

He tracks his various grievances—cold burger, hard pillow, regretted impulse buy, uncomfortable dentist appointm

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