Yes (2004)

I'm not sure how I stumbled upon this unusual film, but I am now discovering the world of director Sally Potter. This story about a man and woman whose paths cross in London, sparking a love affair that unfolds more like a stage play than film. Featuring Joan Allen as an Irish American woman scientist, unhappily married to politician husband Sam Neill, and Lebanese doctor Simon Abkarian in exile working as a cook. The characters speak beautiful poetic and philosophical lines such as "each cell knows its destiny." Their liaison appears to be rooted in another century. Joan Allen, one of the founding members of the famed Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago is lovely as the statuesque, brilliant professional who seems to be living the wrong kind of life until she follows her passion with this exhuberant middle eastern lover through London, Belefast, Beirut and Havana.