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Yes

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  Yes Review
Tookey's Rating
2 /10
 
Average Rating
4.59 /10
 
Starring
She: Joan Allen, He: Simon Abkarian
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Directed by: Sally Potter
Written by: Sally Potter

 
 
 
Released: 2005
   
Genre: DRAMA
ROMANCE
   
Origin: UK/ US
   
Colour: C
   
Length: 95
 
 


 
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It's a brave film, particularly on the part of Allen, and in many ways an accomplished film. But it's so bookish and clever that you can never fully embrace it, even when you wish you could.

(Shawn Levy, Portland Oregonian)

The results are visually striking, but conceptually they oscillate between poetic, pretentious, and philosophically dubious.

(David Sterritt, Christian Science Monitor)

While Yes defies film's conventions in many, many ways, it's still that same old story, the fight for love and glory.

(Steve Davis, Austin Chronicle)

If nothing else, Yes is certainly a brave experiment.

(Connie Ogle, Miami Herald)

Flawed but very original.

(Helen O'Hara, Empire)

Like Potter's Orlando and The Tango Lesson, Yes showcases a craft and a hushed, vibrant intensity that prove compelling even when the story loses its focus.

(Tasha Robinson, The Onion)

Ambitious, overweening, politically engaged, smug, lyrical and clunky, it's a mess but a sporadically beautiful one, with a searching tone and a willingness to take risks that viewers can't help but admire, even as they find it belabored and, ultimately, inert. It's a bold exercise, an interesting experiment, but a movie it ain't.

(Ann Hornaday, Washington Post)


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