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  • Actors: Jude Law, Juliette Binoche, Robin Wright Penn, Martin Freeman, Ray Winstone
  • Format: Anamorphic, PAL
  • Language English
  • Subtitles: German, English, Italian, Turkish, Arabic, Croatian
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm
  • DVD Release Date: 23 Jul 2007
  • Run Time: 115 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000MR8SUK
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 8,445 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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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 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

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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...

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18 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great movie , 31 Jul 2007
By Antonio Moncayo (Zaragoza) - See all my reviews
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It took me a while to watch this movie after reading some negative reviews , but I was greatly surprised by this beautiful piece of work by Anthony Minghella .It tells the story of Will ( Jude Law ) an architect and Amira ( Juliette Binoche ) an Bosnian refugee in North London and touches on several subjects like relationships and immigration

The film starts with a break in and the story becomes interesting from the beginning, the pace is good , the story is simple but beautifully put together , perhaps the best thing about this movie is the way AA wraps the whole thing in the end.

It is filmed around Charing Cross and North London and for some reason the director choose not to have panoramic shots of the area and concentrate on the characters.

The secondary plots are also interesting and there several famous faces ( Martin Freeman , Ray Winstone , Rad Lazar ) in supporting roles

There are not many extras on the DVD but the directors commentary is particularly interesting.
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18 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars The Space Around Us , 10 April 2007
By Steps "steps_lowe" (Luxembourg) - See all my reviews
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Entirely different in tone to both The English Patient and Cold Mountain, former Grange Hill scribe, Anthony Minghellas' latest is another study of love and its inevitable breakdown. This time, however, it is set a little closer to home.

Jude Law stars as Will, an architect who has based his new project in the rundown area of London's Kings Cross. A rash of break-ins at his office brings him into contact with a Bosnian immigrant and her `urban running' son. With his relationship at home suffering, due to the strains of supporting his daughter suffering from Asperger's and communications failing with his partner (Robin Wright-Penn), Will sets about trying to identify the thief and make sense of his needs.

This is also the first piece Minghella has written AND directed since Truly, Madly, Deeply back in the early 90's. It lacks the satirical wit of that effort and when shorn of the gloss of, say, Cold Mountain, it also appears to be a little bit detached. I'm sure that is intentional as Breaking and Entering is about feeling like a stranger in a family and the sense of loneliness in a vast place. But Minghella's supposedly dilapidated London looks too clean and airy. Where's the claustrophobia and menace on the streets?

The supposed comparison of the `haves' (Law's upwardly mobile proto family) and the `have nots' (Binoche and Gavron's floundering single mother and son in a council estate) is handled clumsily, often jarring in its efforts to portray the flaws in the governmental system. Breaking and Entering does hint at much more specific themes concerning manipulation - of both the head and the heart - but glosses over key issues or coasts by on the caliber of its cast (both a positive and a negative factor).

The main problem is whether it is possible to feel sorry for Jude Law. Not only is he playing a good looking, smug as hell, successful architect, but he's also married to (the un-hit with the ugly stick) Wright-Penn. To make matters worse, as Jude goes all doe-eyed on us, going from bad choice to worse choice, we're supposed to pity him that he has, seemingly no other choice than to nail the obviously `hideous' Julliette Binoche. My, my it must suck being Jude, erm sorry Will.

So enough of the weaknesses at the heart, or lack, of Breaking and Entering; let's look at this from an artistic angle. Minghellla's framing is typically fantastic, showing the London cityscape as confining rather than the vast cultural capital it is so often represented as. There are some great performances here, too. Binoche for one, in a role that, could have given an albatross of a hokey accent, acquits herself very well. She is both brittle and affecting. Law is passable, but can't shake his pretty boy image. Wright Penn is functional as the moping wife and Martin Freeman nabs the best lines as `the funny best mate'.

It's all rather cynical and clinical.

In another directors hand's like, for example, Mike Leigh, this could have been a far weightier drama. Or with, say, Mike Nicols, a more contemporary study of immigrants, crime and the judicial system that is widely flouted and rightly criticised. As it stands, Breaking and Entering is caught in flux between a romantic comedy and `serious' drama. A `romrama' then if we can be so facetious.

Again this is another in the alarming spate of movies, that washes over the audience and where nothing really sticks. Neither as opinionated as the subject matter might have warranted, nor as titillating as the preview would have you believe, Minghella's latest is inoffensive fluff that could have been much harder hitting but in the end just narrowly misses the mark.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Even Ray Winstone couldn't save this one.........., 3 Jul 2008
I rented this on the premise that Ray Winstone doesn't appear in too many poor films &, lo & behold, this proves to be one of the exceptions to that rule.

Jude Law's acting, & indeed his character, is devoid of anything approaching real life but, to be fair to him, the whole plot & direction are so far off beam it's scary.

There are too many snags in this film to mention &, just in case you do want to watch it anyway, I wouldn't want to spoil the "experience" for you; but can you imagine an eastern European hooker nicking someones car & then returning it a few days later clean,tidy & with an affectionate memento of her?

No, neither can I.

Best avoided.
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