Yes: Screenplay and Notes (Shooting Script) - Softcover

Book 52 of 86: Newmarket Shooting Script

Potter, Sally; Berger, John; Porter, Sally; Mishra, Pankaj

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9781557046666: Yes: Screenplay and Notes (Shooting Script)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1557046662 ISBN 13: 9781557046666
Publisher: Newmarket Press, 2005

Synopsis

Contents include:

  • Foreword and Screenplay by Sally Potter
  • Introductions by John Berger and Pankaj Mishra
  • Q&A with Sally Potter and Joan Allen
  • 16-page color photograph section with 28 photographs

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From the Back Cover

Contents include:

  • Foreword and Screenplay by Sally Potter
  • Introductions by John Berger and Pankaj Mishra
  • Q&A with Sally Potter and Joan Allen
  • 16-page color photograph section with 28 photographs

Reviews

Published screenplays are usually worth reading only if one has seen the films, and often resemble souvenir brochures more than books. Potter's complement to her latest film is the rare published screenplay that transcends those limitations. Pictures are corralled into a discrete section, there's no press-book boilerplate about actors, and the screenplay per se, trimmed to reflect the completed film, is good reading. It helps immensely that the dialogue consists of rhymed couplets, for the discipline involved helps Potter pack in significance without becoming verbose. Basically the story, serious but not without humor, of an affair between an Irish American scientist whose marriage to a British politician has collapsed and a Lebanese physician whose exile to Britain has reduced him from practicing surgery to filleting meat in a restaurant, the piece brims with political and relationship issues, on which a succession of cleaning women makes ontological commentary a la a classical Greek chorus. Questions and answers between film-festival audience members and Potter about the film's making wrap things up very satisfactorily. Ray Olson
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Publisher
Newmarket Press
Publication date
2005
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1557046662
ISBN 13 
9781557046666
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
108
Rating
  • 4.10 out of 5 stars
    29 ratings by Goodreads

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