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Breaking and Entering
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: WELLSPRING/GENIUS
EAN: 0796019801935
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 20
Label: Weinstein Company
Languages: English (Original Language), Serbo-Croatian (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled),
Manufacturer: Weinstein Company
MPN: 80193
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Weinstein Company
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 08, 2007
Running Time: 119 minutes
Studio: Weinstein Company
Theatrical Release Date: January 26, 2007
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Editorial Review:
The atmospheric and erotically charged Breaking and Entering reunites director Anthony Minghella with Jude Law (The Talented Mr. Ripley, Cold Mountain) and the haunting Juliette Binoche (The English Patient, 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 the original British version of The Office), is heading a gentrification project in London's seedy, crime-plagued King's Cross neighborhood. 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 Truly Madly Deeply. The dialogue has Woody Allen pretensions: A cleaning woman who comes under suspicion for the break-ins invokes Kafka. 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 theatres, but it is a fine addition to Crash and other liberal-minded "them and us" dramas. --Donald Liebenson
BREAKING AND ENTERING may lack the quality and scope of Anthony Minghella s previous work such as THE ENGLISH PATIENT and COLD MOUNTAIN but it s an interesting character-driven drama. Jude Law (CLOSER) 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) for years but it s difficult to connect with her due to her worry over her teenage daughter. When Will catches a teenage boy named Miro (Ravi Gafron) breaking into his office he chases the thief home. He later meets the boy's mother a Bosnian refugee played by Juliette Binoche (CHOCOLAT). His anger at Miro is quickly transformed into attraction to his mother further complicating his relationship with Liv.This is Law s third teaming with Minghella (after THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY and COLD MOUNTAIN) and their partnership rewards the audience with a typically good performance from the actor. Wright Penn and Binoche also display the talent people have come to expect but it s the supporting cast that shines here. As Will s business partner Sandy Martin Freeman plays second fiddle to Law but he possesses a similar charm as his character on THE OFFICE. As a persistent prostitute Vera Farmiga (THE DEPARTED) is one of the movie s highlights providing laughter in what is largely a very bleak film. Gavron is a capable young actor as Miro but his performance is most astonishing for his skills at the sport of parkour a kind of urban acrobatics on display throughout the film. If only these characters were half as adept at life and relationships as Gavron is at leaping from building to building....System Requirements:Running Time: 120 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 796019801935 Manufacturer No: 80193
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Didn't do it for me
It takes the first 45 minutes before some things starts to happen and then still it feels very stiffled. What came to mind watching this was the book "Unholy Hunger", as it displays very well the feeding happening in human relating on planet Earth. Everyone is feeding on somebody else; sometimes it is mutual feeding and at other times it is distinctly predatorial. Not a pretty sight.
Rating: - Great idea....poor execution
Just because it's Anthony Minghella does not mean we forget what good film-making is all about.
The positives: I loved the shots of King's Cross, and I fondly remember the times I spent their in my student days (and all-nighters!) at The Scala Cinema. I liked the way the regeneration of this area was woven into the plot as a contrast to the crumbling relationship of Will and Liv. Binoche is great, and I loved the cameo by Juliet Stevenson who seemed very believable and low-key. The ... Read More
Rating: - An over ambitious movie that falls flat.
Breaking and Entering, starring Jude Law, contains a meandering morass of a plot that involves the love of his life played by an emaciated Robin Wright-Penn, her slightly autistic daughter, a young Serbian boy who involves himself in thieving from Law's business, and the young boys mother-played by Binoche. Oh and a immigrant prostitute from Russia also makes an appearance for good measure.
If that sounds like a hodgepodge quagmire of characters- it's because it is. All of them tangle ... Read More
Rating:  - Not a good ending
The beginning and middle of this movie was good but did not make up for the ending. I guess I was expecting some shocking or abrupt ending instead it ended happily everyone making up and moving on! Disgusting!
Rating:  - A very touching movie
This is a drama about how sometimes loving someone is just not enough and how quite often we sabotage our own lives and happiness. While not the most action packed movie, it shines mostly in its simple and non-flashy or over dramatic expression.
All of the characters in this movie are wounded or damaged by life somehow and are both lashing out and trying to heal the best way they know how, even if it causes them to make poor choices. The minor characters as well. Even though they all ... Read More
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