Clevercell Very disappointing...

Glimmerubro It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

Raymond Sierra The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Maciste_Brother YES is a seriously beautiful film. I haven't seen a film this mesmerizingly beautiful in a very along time. Without even knowing anything about it, I purchased the DVD for $4 and it's the best $4 I've ever spent. With so many crappy blockbusters and overrated Oscar bait films out there, it's a shame a film this good is virtually unknown. What's really remarkable & fascinating about YES is that it's 100% original. I've never seen anything like it. How many movies today can claim to be that?I've seen a lot of Joan Allen's previous films and she's the best she's ever been in YES. Her performance is a true revelation and plainly shows that she's often miscast in most of her projects. Joan Allen really shines here. In fact the whole cast shines, including Sam Neil. The sparing between Joan and Neal is almost electrifying in its simplicity and directness. The cinematography is vivid and lends itself perfectly with the tone of the film. But the thing that makes the movie is the writing. It's the best. Just listening to the dialogue is bliss. The whole "Aunt at the hospital" moment is simply remarkable. I get goosebumps whenever I watch (and listen) to that scene. It's almost unreal how beautiful it is. One of the greatest moments in cinema, if you ask me.As for those who say the rhyming dialogue is distracting, I watched this movie with other people and they didn't even noticed it until I told them about it.I highly recommend YES. It's true hidden gem that needs to be discovered by as many people as possible.

popart-1 I would have enjoyed YES more if i had merely listened to it. Watching it was less than satisfying and sometimes painful. The camera work was right out of film school and was annoying. Granted some location photography was excellent....the colors and costume and locations obviously well thought out. The trouble for me was that I did not and could not give a hoot about the lovers.....boring was the thought that most often came to mind. That and i kept picturing other actors in those roles, and then i'd be reminded of other movies that had a similar story line but were so much more fun to watch. On a positive note, I enjoyed the young woman who began and closed the movie...the maid, but kept wishing the movie had been about her.bob Leonard

eme-9 YES is watchable, and obviously Sally Potter's "labor of love", so I gave it a 7, but that's because I'm kind. The dialog of this movie is entirely in verse. Speaking/writing in verse creates some heavy expectations of/in a movie's audience, emotional, and perhaps spiritual expectations. Shakespeare could get away with it, his verse generating a certain ancient resonance of universal Truths transcending, yet underscoring, an individual's petty self-concerns.But in Yes verse creates false gravitas. The "adulterous" love affair doesn't seem all that scandalous, sorry to say, nor portentous with broken sexual suppressions: the newly "liberated" lovers will be sure to suffer for, at last, breaking taboos and having their moist FUN.Some powerful "moments" in Yes, yes, and potentially it was evolvable into a great movie—-but that didn't happen: *Obligatory interludes in southern regions, over-stewed in style, style never a substitute for deep content, *Been-there-done-that jogging in the sun—-filmic foreplay for the fluidic reunion, *Herkyjerky camera, *An unintelligible whispered soliloquy in Irish brogue—-making a case, as long as the film-makers took such care to deliver the precious verse, for optional English subtitles, *Char-women making direct "contact" with the audience with no emotional justification for their domestic pontifications, which seemed (2me) incongruous.The lovers' reconciliation was meaningless (2me) because I didn't care that they had broken up. Actually, when they, or rather he, the petulant putz, broke up, I felt: Good riddance!--who wants a man, a doctor no less, who twiddles his germy mustache while preparing people's food!

Ghost-Cat If I can not find the rhyme - fine, if I can not find the rhythm - hit me!It's been a while since I have cried watching movie. And by the end I sobbed like a child who has been told that Santa is not real. Of course, I'm lying just a bit, men do not cry in movies. It takes a woman to bring tears to man's eyes. Yet, I admit, the movie touched me deeply. I have been known to write a verse or two. And timing was suspiciously perfect, I just was looking for the answer, hoping 'Yes' could be the word I'll hear from the Goddess. God answered instead. He did not sound 3.14ssed but neither He was pleased with my quest. At least He was amused, you can bet on that. Let us return back to the movie. Some people, I guess, those who did not expect to hear a lengthy poem, might get upset after an overdose of verse. I pity them but only for a moment, it's all I've got for them, the rest is for my Goddess...I meant the time, my darling, not the pity. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All the time. OK, I'm sorry, little domestic troubles. I gotta go now. See it for yourselves. And hear too)))Bye-bye,Ghost Cat