BREAKING AND ENTERING is interesting, character-driven drama. Jude Law (CLOSER, FINAL CUT) plays Will, a landscape architect who succeeds in business but finds his personal life is... more
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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 Awar...
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 Awar...
Advantages: A treasure trove of acting and writing for Minghella's fans to embrace Disadvantages: If you are not a fan of the director, you probably wont like it
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TITLE: Breaking and Entering
RATING: ****
CAST: Jude Law, Juliette Binoche, Robin Wright Penn, Martin Freeman, Vera Farmiga, Ray Winstone, Rafi Gavron, Poppy Rogers, Mark Benton, Juliet Stevenson, Caroline Chikezie, Rad Lazar, Ed Westwick, Branka Katic, Velibor Topic. DIRECTOR: Anthony Minghella
SCREENWRITER: Anthony Minghella
STUDIO: Miramax Films / The Weinstein Company / Mirage ... ...--- Jude Law
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BREAKING AND ENTERING INTO PEOPLE’S LIVES
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The film I will be reviewing tonight is on BREAKING AND ENTERING, the new movie written and directed by Anthony Minghella. As with many films by the great Minghella, here is another gem about ordinary people finding themselves in extraordinary circumstances ...
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Actor(s): Ray Winstone, Rafi Gavron, Juliette Binoche, Vera Farmiga, Martin Freeman, Robin Wright Penn, Jude Law, Mark Benton, Poppy Rogers, Romi Aboulafia, Kwesi Asiedu-Mansah, Helen Baker, Boris Boscovic
Director(s): Anthony Minghella
Genre: Drama
Classification: 15 years and over
Production Year: 2006
Running Time: 1 hour 55 minutes
Consumer Advice: Contains strong language and moderate sex
Video Category: Feature Film
Country Of Origin: United Kingdom
Plot: BREAKING AND ENTERING is interesting, character-driven drama. Will is a landscape architect who succeeds in business but finds his personal life is tougher to navigate. He has been with Liv for years, but it’s difficult to connect with her due to her worry over her teenage daughter. When Will catches teenager Miro breaking into his office, he chases the thief home. He later meets the boy's mother, a Bosnian refugee. His anger at Miro is quickly transformed into attraction to his mother, further complicating his relationship with Liv.
Release details
DVD Region: Region 2 (Europe)
Studio(s): WALT DISNEY STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAINM; TECHNICOLOR DISTRIBUTION SERVICES
Release date: 02/04/2007
No of Discs: 1
Catalogue No: BUA 0022501
Barcode: 8717418118280
Screenwriter: Anthony Minghella
Languages
Main Language: English
Technical information
Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1
DVD Description
BREAKING AND ENTERING is 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 it’s difficult to connect with her due to her worry over her teenage daughter. When Will catches teenager Miro breaking into his office, he chases the thief home. He later meets the boy's mother, a Bosnian refugee played by Juliette Binoche (CHOCOLAT, THE ENGLISH PATIENT). 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 director Anthony 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...
Professional reviews
Review: Ray Winstone is sharp as razor blades playing the investigative detective. Vera Farmiga...provides funny and lively off-colour commentary... (Box Office, 19/04/2007)
There are moments of lovely, painful intimacy between [the characters]... (New York Times, 19/04/2007)
It's Binoche who startles with a raw portrayal bristling with anger and a festering sense of injustice (Total Film, 19/04/2007)
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