Yes (film)
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| Directed by | Sally Potter |
| Written by | Sally Potter |
| Starring |
Joan Allen Simon Abkarian Sam Neill Gary Lewis |
| Music by |
Philip Glass (song) Tom Waits (song) Sally Potter |
| Distributed by | Sony Pictures Classics |
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Release date
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September 4, 2004 (Telluride Film Festival) |
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Running time
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100 min |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £1,000,000 (estimated) |
Yes is a 2004 film written and directed by Sally Potter. It stars Joan Allen, Simon Abkarian, Samantha Bond, Sam Neill, Shirley Henderson, Raymond Waring, Stephanie Leonidas, and Sheila Hancock.
The film's dialogue is almost entirely in iambic pentameter and usually rhymes. This artistic choice polarized film critics.
The film opens as an unnamed Irish-American microbiologist (Allen) discovers her English businessman husband Anthony (Neill) is having an affair with their goddaughter's mother. Feeling fragile and alone at an elegant London dinner party, she meets a Lebanese Muslim chef (Abkarian) who immediately begins seducing her. They soon begin a passionate, torrid affair. He tells her of his past in Beirut, where he was a surgeon who became disillusioned after he saved a man's life moments before he was shot dead. She tells him about her childhood, which began in Belfast where she was raised by a loving Marxist aunt before she moved to America.
After a racially driven argument in his restaurant's kitchen, the chef is fired. His connection with the microbiologist begins to implode as he questions the foundation for their relationship and cultural attitudes begin to pull them apart. "From Elvis to Eminem, Warhol's art," he says, "I know your stories, know your songs by heart. But do you know mine? No, every time, I make the effort, and I learn to rhyme, in your English. And do you know a word of my language, even one? Have you heard that 'algebra' was an Arabic man? You've read the Bible. Have you read the Koran?"
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