I Am Curious (Yellow)

I Am Curious (Yellow)

Directed by Vilgot Sjöman

Produced by Sandrews

1967122 min5.7 / 10

A provocative, intellectually restless experimental film that uses a young woman's quest for knowledge and experience as a vehicle for meta-cinematic reflection on politics, sexuality, and the nature of filmmaking itself.

Lena, aged twenty, wants to know all she can about life and reality. She collects information on everyone and everything, storing her findings in an enormous archive. She experiments with relationships, political activism, and meditation. Meanwhile, the actors, director and crew are shown in a humorous parallel plot about the making of the film and their reactions to the story and each other. Nudity, explicit sex, and controversial politics kept this film from being shown in the US while its seizure by Customs was appealed.

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  • Is I Am Curious (Yellow) violent? Barely. Less violent than 76% of films.

  • Is I Am Curious (Yellow) scary? Not especially. Less frightening than 65% of films.

  • Is I Am Curious (Yellow) sad? Not especially. Less sad than 59% of films.

  • Does I Am Curious (Yellow) end with hope? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

  • Is I Am Curious (Yellow) easy watching? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

36/ 100

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