Starring:
Joan Allen, Simon Abkarian, Sam Neill, Shirley Henderson, Sheila Hancock.
Directed by:
Sally Potter (Orlando, The Man Who Cried).
Produced by :
Christopher Sheppard, Sally Potter, Andrew Fierberg.
Distributor:
Sony Pictures Classics
MPAA Rating:
R for language and some sexual content.
Release Date:
June 24th, 2005 (NY/LA
Film Festival Screenings:
The Toronto International Film Festival, the Berlin International Film Festival and soon to appear in the Tribeca Film Festival.
Drama and Romance, 1hr 40 min.:
YES is the uninhibited and poetic story of a passionate affair which breaks the boundaries between an American scientist (Joan Allen) and a Lebanese chef (Simon Abkarian) in a relationship that challenges all of their sexual, moral, religious and political limits. What begins as an emotional sanctuary for each of them, climaxes to an unbridled intimacy unlike anything either has ever experienced. Sam Neill plays the betrayed and betraying husband, and Shirley Henderson an intuitive housekeeper who observes the evidence of heartbreak the lovers leave in their wake, as they embark on a journey that takes them from London and Belfast to Beirut and Havana.
