Yes

Name: Yes
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: June 24, 2005
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 55
Cast: Joan Allen, Sam Neill, Simon Abkarian

2005

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Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: June 24, 2005 | R

Starring: Joan Allen, Sam Neill, Simon Abkarian

Summary: The story of a passionate love affair between an American woman (Joan Allen) and a Middle-Eastern man (Simon Abkarian) in which they confront some of the greatest conflicts of our generation - religious, political and sexual. [Sony Pictures Classics]

Director: Sally Potter

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Rating: R

Runtime: 100 min

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Jonathan Rosenbaum

Beautifully composed and deftly delivered, it becomes the libretto to Potter's visual music, creating a remarkable lyricism and emotional directness. Read full review

Liam Lacey

Ultimately, Potter's fable is about how a catastrophe forces us to ask what we believe and why. Read full review

Steven Rea

Potter explores midlife ennui, (middle-)East-West tension, theology, biology and the irrational nature of romance in this ambitious, if ultimately sketchy, drama. Read full review

Andrew O'Hehir

For the most part Yes buzzes with visual life and imagination. Read full review

Andrew Sun

Despite many interesting mise-en-scene moments, the film disappointingly feels as sterile as the family's immaculately clean house. In a sense, the movie is too ambitious. Read full review

Dallas Observer Bill Gallo

Shades of "House of Sand and Fog," without the compelling drama. Read full review

Wesley Morris

The result is a unique time at the art house: a work whose badness becomes guiltily pleasurable, like a Harlequin romance novel masquerading as a dissertation. Read full review

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Jun 11, 2006

Sally Potter has had a stunning career in avante garde cinema and this is one of her best. Beautifully photographed, beautiful, (if sometimes overly smart) poetic dialogue characters trying to make sense in the post 9-11 realities, honest, strong. If you are looking for Hollywood narrative, Sally Potter has had a stunning career in avante garde cinema and this is one of her best. Beautifully photographed, beautiful, (if sometimes overly smart) poetic dialogue characters trying to make sense in the post 9-11 realities, honest, strong. If you are looking for Hollywood narrative, look elsewhere. If you are looking for an intellectually and aesthetically engaging film, watch YES.… Expand