Yes: Screenplay and Notes (Shooting Script)
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Yes: Screenplay and Notes (Shooting Script) Details
From Publishers Weekly Potter's upcoming film Yes is set in London, and centers on the affair of an Irish-born American biologist, "She," and a Lebanese émigré who is a waiter in a chic hotel, "He." She is unhappily married to a British politician; at a diplomatic event in He's hotel, the two meet, and while their affair doesn't take them anywhere we haven't gone before, the script is remarkable because it is written entirely in rhymed verse. As if this weren't enough to scare off a script reader (or moviegoer), there's even a Greek chorus of sorts, in the form of a cleaning woman who comments continually on the action, as well as a number of shifts in location as She and He's affair moves around the globe. Potter, the English screenwriter best known to Americans for her films Orlando and The Tango Lesson, might have a hard time selling this latest project to Generation Multiplex; it sounds like the worst combination of literary conceit and faux dialectics. But whatever one thinks of the film (which will be released in June), it's surprising, and rather incredible, that the screenplay reads as beautifully as... well, a poem. The book also includes a q&a with Potter and Joan Allen (who plays She). Photos. (June) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Read more Review "Yes was one of the most profound movie experiences at this year's Telluride Film Festival ... it leaves you weeping at its splendid demands." Read more
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Reviews
The film is so unusual... of course: it IS Sally Potter! This is innovative, Shakespearean in its poetry, heartfelt and powerful all at once. I had to obtain the script to more fully appreciate the poetry and full meaning and nuances of the language. Sally Potter is fearless, courageous and deep. She exposes the European and Mid-Eastern differences, the spiritual core of each, and especially, what happens when these two come together It is a Wow. I could tell you all about it, but you should see it and read it for yourself.
