The atmospheric and erotically charged
Breaking and Entering reunites director Anthony Minghella with Jude Law (
,
) and the haunting Juliette Binoche (
, for which she and Minghella won Academy Awards). Law fully invests himself as pre-occupied landscape architect Will Francis, who, with his partner (Martin Freeman from
), is heading a gentrification project in London's seedy, crime-plagued King's Cross neighbourhood. At home, he and Liv (Robin Penn Wright,
), his morose Swedish-American girlfriend of 10 years, are increasingly estranged over the demands of his job and of caring for Liv's autistic daughter, a 13-year-old aspiring gymnast. Will, hiding his identity, begins an affair with Amira (Binoche), the mother of a youth who has twice ransacked Will's office. Amira is a Bosnian refugee with a fierce survival streak that is not above blackmail when she learns who Will is.
This is Minghella's first original screenplay since his little-known romantic gem . The dialogue has pretensions: A cleaning woman who comes under suspicion for the break-ins invokes . A prostitute (Vera Farmiga giving the film's liveliest performance) has a philosophical bent. Will himself ham-handedly explains how he much prefers metaphors to straightforward communication (he'd love this film's title). An art-house film with an A-list cast and wrenching performances, Breaking and Entering couldn't get arrested in cinemas, but it is a fine addition to and other liberal-minded "them and us" dramas. --Donald Liebenson
Product Description
Breaking and Entering is an interesting, character-driven drama. Jude Law (Closer, Final Cut) plays Will, a landscape architect who succeeds in business but finds his personal life is tougher to navigate. He has been with Liv (Robin Wright Penn, Forrest Gump, The Pledge) for years, but finds it difficult to connect with her due to her worries over her teenage daughter. When Will catches teenager Miro breaking into his office, he chases the thief home, meets and falls for the boy's mother--a Bosnian refugee played by Juliette Binoche (Chocolat, The English Patient)--further complicating his relationship with Liv.
- Actors Jude Law, Juliette Binoche, Robin Wright Penn, Martin Freeman, Ray Winstone, Rafi Gavron, Vera Farmiga, Anna Chancellor, Hu Tin-Ting, Eleanor Matsuura & Juliet Stevenson
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- Director Anthony Minghella
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- Certificate 15 years and over
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- Year 2006
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- Languages English
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