I Am Curious (Yellow) Review
By Matt Langdon
Good
After having heard so much about the provocative sexuality of the Swedish film I Am Curious (Yellow), which was seized by U.S. Customs agents under obscenity charges in 1968, I started watching it with considerable expectations. I sat down ready to be inundated with offensive scenes and instead what I got was political talk -- and lots of it!
For well over 35 minutes the film gives us the story of a young Swedish woman named Lena (Lena Nyman) coming of age in a politically aware time period. And by the way, she happens to be sexually active too, so at the 38 minute mark the woman and her new boyfriend (Börje Ahlstedt) take each other's clothes off. Finally, I thought the film is going to deliver. But since the scene is fairly innocent - it would most likely pass PG-13 today - I figured this must be just a warm-up.
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