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 Synopsis  Sally Potter |
Synopsis
The official book tie-in to the provocative new film from award-winning writer/director Sally Potter (Orlando, The Tango Lesson), starring Joan Allen — a Sony Pictures Classics release in June. Filled with exclusive extras, this unique book features Sally Potter's complete screenplay for the film YES, with dialogue written in exquisite verse, essays by distinguished literary figures John Berger and Pankaj Mishra, an introduction by Potter, and an extensive Q&A with Potter and Joan Allen on bringing this singular project to the screen. The book also includes the original five- minute script by Sally Potter upon which YES was based, and a 16-page color photo section. The uninhibited and poetic story of a passionate love affair between an American woman (Joan Allen) and a Middle-Eastern man (Simon Abkarian), YES explores some of the greatest conflicts of our generation - religious, political and sexual. 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. "I began to write the film in the context of the precise global conditions of mid-September 2001, in an attempt to meet head-on the extreme difficulties we were all facing," writes Sally Potter. "This entailed re-evaluating the whole business of being a filmmaker; my relationship with the image, with sound, and above all with language. To remain silent was impossible. But how to speak? Instinctively I turned to love and to verse. For love, ultimately, is a stronger force than hate; and verse—by virtue of its apparent artifice—paradoxically allows us to express the complexities of thought and experience in a distilled, natural way."
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