YeS by SaLLy PoTTeR

[rouge / zoé]

I went to the Roger Ebert Overlooked Film Festival yesterday and saw the movie Yes.My gut reaction was to be in awe. After thinking about it more and more I absolutely love the film.The colors are stupendous, the music is fierce. The producer said that Sally Potter actually composed some of the music; I had no idea she was this amazing: a dancer, a director and now a composer!What felt fresh was the dialogue. It was in iambic pentameter, but nobody sounded the way Shakespeare sounds in your head when you read. Can you imagine? the whole dialogue was in poetry, but it didn't sound stiff at all.The funniest thing was the gaze of the maid that opens and closes the film. This creature says exquisite things about dustmite, fallen hair, dandruff, dirt...