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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 39 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 8, 2005
- Originally Released: 2005
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Simon Abkarian & Joan Allen | |
Performer: | Shirley Henderson, Sam Neill, Sheila Hancock, Samantha Bond, Gary Lewis, Wil Johnson & Raymond Waring | |
Directed by | Sally Potter | |
Music by | Fred Frith | |
Screenwriting by | Sally Potter | |
Composition by | Sally Potter | |
Produced by | Christopher Sheppard & Andrew Fierberg | |
Director of Photography: | Alexei Rodionov |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 5/5 --
A dizzying, stunning achievement, an unforgettable dance of demonization and regret. A rare privilege of a film.
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The List
[A] bold romantic drama, with dialogue in iambic pentameters...
Sight and Sound
The pair take up with each other, and during the course of their affair, wrestle with problems that separate all humans: race, class, sex, whatever.
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The Tyee (British Columbia)
Rating: 3.5/5 --
Your taste in movies may not be/ Quite so highbrow or so twee/ But Potter has a lot to say/ About the troubles of our day.
Arizona Republic
Potter and the cast are to be warmly commended for their unabashed artistic ambition.
Uncut
The use of poetry suggests depth and history beyond the immediate moment, even when the characters, called only He and She, trade epithets as lovers in the midst of horrifying anger can.
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Newsday
Despite many interesting mise-en-scene moments, the film disappointingly feels as sterile as the family's immaculately clean house.
Hollywood Reporter
Product Description:
Oscar nominee Joan Allen gives a remarkable performance in Sally Potter's YES, an extraordinary look at love and politics set in London, Belfast, Beirut, and Havana. Allen stars as an unnamed Irish-American scientist disillusioned with her marriage to Anthony (Sam Neill), who is more interested in his political job--and other women. Fed up with his affairs, she falls for an unnamed Arab cook (Simon Abkarian) and begins a torrid sexual relationship with him. A successful molecular biologist, she also puts her life under a microscope, but she is afraid to go after what she really wants. Meanwhile, her lover is much more open about the things he used to have when he was in Lebanon, reduced now to working in a British kitchen in order to barely survive; he comes to resent that she pays for everything in their romance, leading to tension and extreme situations. Writer-director Potter (ORLANDO) shows a sharp eye for the human condition and the fragility of love in this unusual and extraordinary film in which all of the characters speak in iambic pentameter. In addition to mixing in different styles, including slow motion, grainy shots, and freeze frames, Potter has a series of maids, especially the one played by Shirley Henderson, face the camera, reacting to what is going on around them. Henderson often addresses the audience, humorously pointing out that no matter how thorough people are, there is still always a little dirt to be cleaned up.