i think DP would wanna go watch this new movie which is going to
be released soon..
Yes
'How can I describe YES? Is it a love story? It's certainly
romantic, but it is also quite definitely political. And it is also
funny, though you couldn't really call it a comedy.'.
Written immediately following 9/11 as a response to the
demonisation of the Arab world in the West, and the simultaneous
wave of hatred against America, Sally Potter's new film is as
difficult to categorise as it is easy to enjoy. YES is a the story
of a passionate affair between an American woman (Joan Allen) and a
Middle-Eastern man (Simon Abkarian), which forces them to confront
some of the greatest conflicts of our times - religious, political
and sexual. Sam Neill plays the betrayed and betraying politician
husband, and Shirley Henderson is a philosophical cleaner who
witnesses the trail of heartbreak the lovers leave behind
them.
To have her characters better express ideas which might be abstract
or hard to digest, Potter chose
to write their dialogue in verse, though such is
the narrative drive and the strength of the performances that for
much of the time this seems like just a more lyrical version of
everyday speech.
Inventive and visually adroit as ever, in YES Potter excels at
combining a cinema of ideas with a cinema of emotion, engaging
heart as well as head.
