For a film that was banned in the United States as being obscene, I Am Curious Yellow would probably barely get a hard R rating today.
If you're looking for some big sex fest of a film, keep looking. This is an amusing fake documentary about the Swedish class system. The director/writer Vilgot Sjöman and his supposed girlfriend at the time Lena Nyman wander around Sweden interviewing people about the Swedish class system and surprise surprise, find out there probably is one. Recognizing a film about class politics in Sweden would be really dull, Sjöman threw in a little nudity and pretend sex to sell the film.
Pudgy faced Lena Nyman blathers on about social justice, fascist Spain, Martin Luther King Jr., the nonviolent peace movement, women's rights and just about any other tiresome liberal cause that seems to cross her mind. Is all of this to be taken seriously? I sense that Vilgot Sjöman doesn't really think so. The camera crew frequently interrupts the story while Sjöman discusses some plot point with the actors.
This film was extremely notorious for being one of those sex films coming out of Sweden that were going to topple the moral society of our nation. There were long court battles and lots of discussions about freedom of the speech vs pornography when the film came out. Today you have to sit through a lot of pseudo liberal claptrap to get to the naughty bits.
I Am Curious Yellow made a lot of money for the liberal Vilgot Sjöman who was probably laughing all the way to his conservative bank or savings and loan.
121 minutes.
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