Sally Potter was live in conversation at The Garden Cinema with Magdalene Lepri to discuss her 2004 film Yes.

The director joined us for a weekend retrospective of her films and music in anticipation of the release of Sally’s debut album, Pink Bikini, a semi-autobiographical collection of songs about growing up female in London in the 1960s, as a young rebel and activist.

Told almost entirely in iambic pentameter, Yes is the story of a passionate love affair between an American woman (Joan Allen) and a Middle-Eastern man (Simon Abkarian), in which they confront some of the greatest conflicts of our generation – religious, political and sexual. Sam Neil plays the betrayed and betraying politician husband, Sheila Hancock the beloved aunt and Shirley Henderson the philosophical cleaner who witnesses the trail of dirt and heartbreak the lovers leave behind them, as they embark, on a journey that takes them from London and Belfast to Beirut and Havana.