Director Sally Potter weaves diverse music by Philip Glass, Gustavo Santaolalla, Kronos Quartet, and Tom Waits with her original music, co-composed with Fred Frith.

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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

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #28011 in DVD
• Brand: Sony
• Released on: 2005-11-08
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Formats: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: French
• Dubbed in: French
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 100 minutes

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

From The New Yorker
Nobody could accuse the British director Sally Potter of repeating herself. Every project has the air of an adventure, and this new one is the riskiest to date. Joan Allen plays a nameless and discontented scientist living in London. Sam Neill plays her sighing cad of a husband, and Simon Abkarian plays the Lebanese surgeon turned chef with whom she falls in love. The story of their trysting is ominously slim, and the final switch of location to Cuba feels like a slightly desperate, if strongly flavored, shot of the exotic. The movie is rife with similar shifts, as the images melt, thaw, and resolve themselves into a variety of textures and tones; what is more, the screenplay is composed wholly in rhyming couplets. These are delivered, and sometimes disguised, with great suppleness, especially by Neill, but they work far better in rushes of wrath and dissent than in the more lyrical moods, and the whole conceit will strike you as either dazzling or vacantly precious, according to taste. -Anthony Lane
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