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Mark Waters' The House of Yes, from the Wendy MacLeod play, is a place of infinite possibilities and their fatal consequences. If two isolated children are attracted to each other, they'll satisfy their urge by any means necessary. If a fellow (Freddie Prinze Jr.) wants to have sex with his brother's fiance, he will. If a gun shows up in the first reel, it will surely go off in the last. Is this tragic? Not for the Pascals. Just trag-esque. Trag-onic...
...think that your family is dysfunctional? Do you dread going home for Thanksgiving? Welcome to The House of Yes: you're probably not this bad off. With a screenplay adapted from Wendy MacLeod's acclaimed play, the film touches with a brilliant but subtle hand on complex issues such as mental illness, family relationships, upper class apathy and sex. This beautiful movie has a quiet, dream-like quality that lends an appropriate surrealism to the entire set. In this world, nothing is real or logical; everything is permissible and negotiated, from identity to familial relationships...
...violence ? which has sometimes taken place near Army barracks ? may be happening with the complicit knowledge of President Liamine Zeroual's military-backed government, says TIME Paris correspondent Scott MacLeod. It is difficult to investigate such claims in a country where reporters are routinely murdered, but it is certainly true that hard-liners in the government are opposed to negotiations with Islamic groups ? and as MacLeod says, they "might be turning a blind eye to the attacks with a view toward making it politically impossible to reach out to the militants." Tuesday's atrocity may disrupt secret talks between...
...With reporting by Helen Gibson/London and Scott MacLeod and Robert Weiner (CNN)/Paris
...Reported by Julie K.L. Dam/London and Scott MacLeod and Thomas Sancton/Paris