Yes

I highly recommend the movie Yes.I saw it just today and I confess,That having had today four teeth removedI spent the day with films and never moved.Of all the shows I saw, this was the best,Though if you're (rightly) loath to be impressedBy my opinions, drugged-up and fatigued,I've reasons that I thought you'd be intrigued:The dialogue, which flows like seven seas,Is served in rhyming couplets, much like these,With iambs counting five in every line.Delivering the lines, it sounds divine:The actors speak like poets, to a word;Pedantic sing-song speech is never heard.The themes it treats are numerous and strange-There's death and sex and carpe-diem change-But love is at the center of the tale:The confidence that passion can prevail,The perfect beauty of the spoken word,The conflict of who will and won't be heard,And silent cleaning girls who, while they cleanseSend piercing gazes through the camera lens(Including one whose speech bookends the show,Whom Moaning Myrtle's Potter fans will know).In short: O fans of pentametric verse!All films, compared with this, seem much the worse.Its muselike powers I can answer to;It moved me to perhaps move all of youTo see a movie willing to be art,To thrill the ear, illuminate the heart.And does it, in its goal, meet with success?My answer is, of course, a fervent Yes.

****YES is not your stereotypical movie. What an understatement! It is written in iambic pentameter (a style of poetry) and is, I suppose, a film that will most appeal to those of us who are intellectuals and literate...however...I STILL liked it! I can see how it would appear boring to many people, because it is deep and intense and it drags when you can't hear the dialogue (because of low volume) or when it is so heavily accented (by the dialects of many different cultures) that you can't figure out what is going on. Nevertheless, it is still a wonderous and marvelous film.YES is ostensibly the story of a romance between an unsatisfied married Western woman and an Islamic lover. However, it touches on many existential issues beyond romance in the dialogue that is really poetry, but spoken as naturally as possible (NOTE: there are no subtitles...subtitles would have changed this movie from one that is good to one that is great). How hard is it to read poetry and make it sound natural? Really hard...but the actors did their job. I am going to buy this movie and watch it again and again, as it is such a deep movie with such intense acting and themes that it warrants more than one viewing. And I'm hoping that with multiple viewings I'll picked up what I missed even without subtitles.The acting is incredible and irresistable. The film features a multi-cultural cast and characters...and is so unusual that it is hard to put into words. If you like deep and meaningful movies and don't need a lot of action, but enjoy mulling over existential ideas instead, you will love YES. Probably film critics will love YES. I loved YES. However, if you are a fan of run-of-the-mill American movies, this probably is one to pass on. There isn't a lot of action or entertainment and it is the opposite of shallow; however, it makes you think and feel and reflect about life, love, wars, conflict, relationships, and more.I would recommend YES for those people who read instead of watch movies, and/or who think deeply about life and relish the idea of a movie that explores the most important issues of our day.****

Quite the most intelligent DVD I have seen in years. Written immediately after 9/11 it is a moving love story, with witty disalogue. This is real life, political as we all live politics, whether an MP in London, a low wage earner washing up in a big kitchen hotel, or a struggling immigrant. It defines what it is to be human, whoever we are, in a rivetting short moment in the two main characters lives. surprisingly the dialogue is in iambic poetry, but this rarely intrudes as it is spoken so well, and it adds an intensity to the speech. It also has a sort of Greek chorus in the form of a cleaner who sees all without herself being seen or acknowledged. The results is deeply philosophical and makes one think about a huge range of issues,war,love, marriage, immigration, racial prejudice, inequality, teenage difficulties, etc. etc. Camera work is highly creative, unusual angles and even CCTV footage. This is essential viewing .the only problem is `I could only buy Area 1 DVD and that cannot be played in the UK. This is crazy as the film is about London. My early copies were Area 2, so they are about, and well worth the searc h.

Very dull and slow

"What makes me to dream of you?"Characters are felt real, conflicts are palpable, and most of all, storytelling flows like visual music.To create film is to be free and to experience salvation, I suspect that the director might want to say this.

Wunderschöner Film.Hab es schon mehreres mal geschaut und jedesmal gefällt es mir noch mehr.Ich kann es nur empfehlen

From the first this film offers surprises, from the floating dust moats that we gradually realise the cleaner (the terrific Shirley Henderson) has raised from the bed of the married couple whose relationship is in crisis. Later we are invited to see the world differently through glasses of water, though different kinds of camera, in different lights in different places, from a holiday in Cuba to hospital ward, from a board room to a teenager's clothes shop ... And then there's the script, which is all in verse, making us listen to every word. It all sounds terribly intellectual when described like this but the film is fundamentally about real and deep relationships between people, and what gets in the way of those relationships. Do we really see each other? Do we listen to each other? Searing performances all round, though the one that always gets me is Sheila Hancock's as the heroine's dying Aunt. This is film of powerful emotion of a kind you don't find in many places.

Haut mich nicht um, aber meiner Freundin hat es sehr gefallen...

A love triangle story told entirely in verse, filmed with much sensuality in colour-usage, the opening shot of dust-motes flying about is a telling symbol of the rest of the film, as the characters struggle for some form of happiness in life. The cleaner - who sees all, as do all servants - is the best character in this film, and acts as commentator on the action for the audience.All great stuff, but I totally agree with other reviewers that the subtitles are absolutely vital - I love poetry and wanted to be able to read the text at times, particularly when the actors voices are sometimes quiet. I was really annoyed there are no subtitles.

A great film talking about the delicacy of relationship, different cultures (clash) and deep psychological matters coming to the surface when we not withdraw from our feelings, but stand up for them and say: YES.