Poetic Movie

• the Bear

  1 Oct 04, 01:17

  i think DP would wanna go watch this new movie which is going to be released soon..
  
  Yes
  
  
  
  'How can I describe YES? Is it a love story? It's certainly romantic, but it is also quite definitely political. And it is also funny, though you couldn't really call it a comedy.'.
  
  Written immediately following 9/11 as a response to the demonisation of the Arab world in the West, and the simultaneous wave of hatred against America, Sally Potter's new film is as difficult to categorise as it is easy to enjoy. YES is a the story of a passionate affair between an American woman (Joan Allen) and a Middle-Eastern man (Simon Abkarian), which forces them to confront some of the greatest conflicts of our times - religious, political and sexual. Sam Neill plays the betrayed and betraying politician husband, and Shirley Henderson is a philosophical cleaner who witnesses the trail of heartbreak the lovers leave behind them.
  
  To have her characters better express ideas which might be abstract or hard to digest, Potter chose to write their dialogue in verse, though such is the narrative drive and the strength of the performances that for much of the time this seems like just a more lyrical version of everyday speech.
  
  Inventive and visually adroit as ever, in YES Potter excels at combining a cinema of ideas with a cinema of emotion, engaging heart as well as head.
  
  
• DeadPoet

  1 Oct 04, 02:06

  Sound interesting, I wonder will it be given a R(A) rating.
• the Bear

  1 Oct 04, 02:08

  i dunno... but being our age, it doesn't much matter does it?
• DeadPoet

  1 Oct 04, 02:10

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  i dunno... but being our age, it doesn't much matter does it?

  I have a younger friend who might be interested to watch mah.
• the Bear

  1 Oct 04, 02:23

  buy the DVD when it's available
  
  

  Originally posted by DeadPoet:

  I have a younger friend who might be interested to watch mah.

• DeadPoet

  1 Oct 04, 02:27

  By the way who are Joan Allen and Simon Abkarian? At first I thought that guy is Kevin Kline.
• the Bear

  1 Oct 04, 02:31

  i have no idea
  
  and i thought the woman was Cate Blanchett
  
  

  Originally posted by DeadPoet:

  By the way who are Joan Allen and Simon Abkarian? At first I thought that guy is Kevin Kline.

• sleepycat

  1 Oct 04, 02:33

  visually, it reminds me of the postman..
  
  juz won't know if i'll cry my heart out at the trail of heartbreaks mentioned and depicted in the movie..
  
  *..thinking twice..*
• DeadPoet

  1 Oct 04, 02:34

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  i have no idea
  
  and i thought the woman was Cate Blanchett
  
  

  Too bad not KK. I am his fan.
  
  But what the heck, must give other a chance right?
• KittynMeow

  1 Oct 04, 11:25

  wow... sounds interesting....
  
  i feel the movie bug twitching in me... kekeeke
• Nelstar

  1 Oct 04, 11:30

  Looks great.
• tare

  2 Oct 04, 14:27

  sounds like an opportunity for a movie outing............. YES??!!
• DeadPoet

  4 Oct 04, 01:37

  Originally posted by tare:

  sounds like an opportunity for a movie outing............. YES??!!

  So you in-charge okay?
• tare

  4 Oct 04, 19:11

  Originally posted by DeadPoet:

  So you in-charge okay?

  should be ah bear mah ..... /me taichi
• the Bear

  4 Oct 04, 19:14

  har?
  
  cannot leh... shift worker and also going off on vacation soon
  
  also wondering if such a "fringe" type movie will even get here..
  
  it took Lost in Translation about 9 months to make it to singapore!
• tare

  4 Oct 04, 19:15

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  har?
  
  cannot leh... shift worker and also going off on vacation soon
  
  also wondering if such a "fringe" type movie will even get here..
  
  it took Lost in Translation about 9 months to make it to singapore!

  har?? so long??!! then we wait till it's gonna show then we arrow u again lor
• the Bear

  4 Oct 04, 19:22

  i dunno leh.. this just opened in some film fest abroad so don't hold your breath
  
  but i do hope it makes it here... when you all have forgotten about it already
  
  

  Originally posted by tare:

  har?? so long??!! then we wait till it's gonna show then we arrow u again lor

• DeadPoet

  5 Oct 04, 00:13

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  i dunno leh.. this just opened in some film fest abroad so don't hold your breath
  
  but i do hope it makes it here... when you all have forgotten about it already
  
  

  I can always make this thread sticky u know.
• tare

  5 Oct 04, 00:26

  Originally posted by DeadPoet:

  I can always make this thread sticky u know.

  and announce when the movie make it to sg
• the Bear

  5 Oct 04, 00:28

  hmm... probably go buy the DVD
  
  see how lah
  
  right now, my back is attempting murder on me
  
  p.s. would like to go watch Exorcist - The Beginning tho'