Product Description: Passion has no boundaries. A woman (Joan Allen) feeling betrayed by her husband (Sam Neill) turns to a man from a world away (Simon Abkarian) to fulfill her deepest desires. Their sensuous affair takes them on a tumultuous journey across continents and cultures that is seen through the eyes of her maid (Shirley Henderson). YES a lyrical love story directed by Sally Potter (The Man Who Cried The Tango Lesson Orlando) will arouse your emotions and capture your heart long after the last frame fades.System Requirements: Running Time 99 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 043396109063 Manufacturer No: 10906
Amazon.com: It's unsurprising that a movie written in rhyming verse would have stilted or self-conscious moments--but the sumptuous beauty, sinuous rhythms, and cinematic intricacies of Yes may astonish viewers who expect something stuffy or antiquarian. The plot is little more than an affair between an unnamed Irish-American biologist (Joan Allen, once the queen of repression in The Ice Storm, now becoming an art-house sexpot in this and Off the Map) and an unnamed Middle-Eastern chef (Simon Abkarian, Ararat), yet the movie explores just about everything: Marriage, religion, international politics, motherhood, and the nature of zero, while travelling from London to Belfast to Beirut to Havana. Writer/director Sally Potter (Orlando, The Tango Lesson) has enormous ambitions; Yes abounds with complex ideas and daring flourishes, both verbal and visual, juxtaposing the austere and the erotic, intellect and grief. If not everything succeeds, what doesn't is more than made up for by what does. Also featuring Sam Neill (The Piano, Jurassic Park) as Allen's aloof husband and Shirley Henderson (Topsy-Turvy) as a housecleaner with a philosophical perspective on dirt. --Bret Fetzer
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Rating: - masterful
a truly masterful and original way of telling a love story in between the clashes of culture, language and separation by holy wars. A clear telling of what happens when cultures collide and love is in ... Read More
Rating: - Masterpiece!
This movie is simply a masterpiece! The actors are all very believable and passionate. We fall in love with Joan and Simon from the very beginning. We learn about love, deception, loss, poetry, language, ... Read More
Rating: - YES DVD SALLY POTTER
Quite the most intelligent DVD I have seen in years. Written immediately after 9/11 it is a moving love story, with witty disalogue. This is real life, political as we all live politics, whether an MP in London, ... Read More
Rating: - So just what am I agreeing to here?
Two of my favorite films are ones by Sally Potter, _The Tango Lesson_ and _Orlando._ So it was pretty much a given that at some point, I'd sit down and take in Yes, a film about two nameless people who encounter one ... Read More
Rating: - I hear you. Tell me more.
Ms Potter is trying to teach us that adults solve their problems of expressing their feelings via dialogue rather than by acting them out/in (what adult children do). "I hear you .. tell me more."
Her macho stiff ... Read More
- masterful