Yes (2004) on Netflix
A scientist in a loveless marriage to the politician Anthony meets a Lebanese doctor in exile who cooks in London. They begin an affair at a banquet.
- Netflix2.7/5
- IMDb6.4/103,340 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes52%
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Plot summary
A microbiologist known only as She is married to Anthony, her English husband, and discovers he is having an affair with the mother of their goddaughter. At a London dinner party she meets He, a Lebanese doctor living in exile and working as a chef. He begins to seduce her, and the two fall into a passionate affair, their dialogue spoken almost entirely in iambic pentameter. He speaks of Beirut, where he was a surgeon, and she of a Belfast childhood with a Marxist aunt. Cleaners and maids appear throughout, speaking to the camera. A racially driven argument in his restaurant kitchen costs him his job.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Yes (2004)
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- Almost all of the dialogue in Yes is written in iambic pentameter and usually rhymes. The artistic choice polarised film critics.
