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Breaking And Entering [DVD] [2006]
enlarge	Actors: Jude Law, Juliette Binoche, Robin Wright Penn, Martin Freeman, Ray Winstone Studio: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm Category: DVD List Price: ~~£15.99~~ Buy Used: £0.49 as of 21/11/2009 12:04 GMT details You Save: £15.50 (97%) New (22) Used (30) Collectible (1) from £0.49 Seller: philipmawson Rating: 17 reviews Sales Rank: 15871 Format: Anamorphic, PAL Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), German (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), Italian (Subtitled), Turkish (Subtitled), Arabic (Subtitled), Croatian (Subtitled) Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Region: 2 Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 115 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 8717418118280 ASIN: B000MR8SUK Theatrical Release Date: 2006 Release Date: July 23, 2007 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Editorial Reviews: Amazon.co.uk Review The atmospheric and erotically charged IBreaking and Entering/I reunites director Anthony Minghella with Jude Law (IThe Talented Mr. Ripley/I, ICold Mountain/I) and the haunting Juliette Binoche (IThe English Patient/I, 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 IThe Office/I), 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.p This is Minghella's first original screenplay since his little-known romantic gem ITruly Madly Deeply/I. 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, IBreaking and Entering/I couldn't get arrested in theatres, but it is a fine addition to ICrash/I and other liberal-minded "them and us" dramas. I--Donald Liebenson/I

Customer Reviews: Showing reviews 1-5 of 17 1 2 3 4 Next » Great movie July 31, 2007 Antonio Moncayo (Zaragoza) 20 out of 27 found this review helpful 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 br / br /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. br / br /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. br / br /The secondary plots are also interesting and there several famous faces ( Martin Freeman , Ray Winstone , Rad Lazar ) in supporting roles br / br /There are not many extras on the DVD but the directors commentary is particularly interesting. br / Loving it April 7, 2008 K. P. Dean 2 out of 2 found this review helpful First saw this film at the cinema, and it remains my favourite film of 2006. It is well acted and very subtle in it's message. Well, I liked it a lot, but see for yourself. well worth the money on DVD. A movie of substance. July 30, 2007 Martin (UK) 7 out of 12 found this review helpful br /With great acting and a wonderful music score, Minghella brings you a tale of the city, that could have been located in any major city in Europe. This film has an art house feel about it, and the film benefits from this. The acting is stong, and Minghella's amazing ability to frame a scene really brings the atmosphere out of the locations he uses. There are many layers to this movie, and like any intelligent movie, you are left thinking about the characters and the places after the movie has finished. Minghella has not told you everything about the characters, leaving some reviewers to write that "you could not care less about the characters". This is not the case. This is a film for your mind brain. It's also a good story and enjoyable to watch. br / br /Thanks. a movie not a kitchen sink drama July 22, 2007 Otto (London United Kingdom) 4 out of 8 found this review helpful If you're looking for 'gritty' naturalism don't look here. The British film industry has been locked into the Ken Loach / Mike Leigh school of film making for far too long. The world has moved on. Of course there is a place for such 'drama'; Eastenders is great but... it belongs on tv. br / br /"Breaking And Entering" is a film, proud of it and all the better for it. Minghella elicits another great performance from Jude Law - Binoche is of course Binoche. And there is a fantastic comic turn by Vera Farmiga. br / br /This movie proves it is possible to make a film about London that looks at some serious issues but does not wallow in them. It made me think but also entertained me. Despite what some would have you believe - this is not such a bad combination. br / br /I believe that Anthony Minghella was actually a script editor - not writer - on Grange Hill. And if anyone believes that adapting a novel does not count as writing a film - I suggest they have a go themselves. br / br /More British FILMS of this calibre - please. br / br / br / br / Intriguing story marred by some careless direction August 13, 2007 Dennis Littrell (SoCal) 11 out of 15 found this review helpful Anthony Minghella, who won an Oscar for The English Patient (1996), wrote and directed this interesting film starring Jude Law as an architect who gets involved with a Bosnian ex-pat (Juliette Binoche) and her son. I found it mostly satisfying, but somehow unconvincing. The fact that Jude Law is a few years younger than either Robin Wright Penn, who played his wife Liv, or Binoche who played Amira was not the problem. What bothered me was the incompleteness of Will Francis's character. To make this work, Will had to be a philandering sort of guy who this time gets involved in something more than the usual sexcapade. We need to see Will fooling around before he gets involved with Amira, otherwise his insistence on quick sex with an exotic woman just doesn't make sense. Not only that but the lesson he presumably learns from the experience is not as compelling. br / br /And as much as I admire Juliette Binoche I really thought her character could have been spiced up a bit. She needs to look more exotic and to have a kind of saucy streak above the straight-laced mother and seamstress role she is forced to play. We needed to see her as sexually frustrated, yes, but also as someone who is awakened by being made love to by Jude Law! For some reason Minghella underplayed this possibility. I think she should have just gone bananas over Will, and that would have created the kind of emotional conflict that allowed her to feel guilt about arranging to have the photos taken of her and Will in bed together. Although this was blackmail for her son, it was--or should have been--a betrayal of love. Instead of exuding such a goody-goody persona, Amira should have projected a more compromised person, someone who would cynically sleep with a guy and conspire to photograph him in a compromised position instead of first asking him if he would help her son. br / br /There were some schlocky details that Minghella did not pay enough attention to that detract from the effectiveness of the film. First, it is not clear why Will should be able to sleep so soundly in the afternoon in adulterous bed of Amira's friend that her friend can enter and take a dozen or so shots of him with Amira moving around on the bed in different poses. I kept expecting to see something showing us he was drugged! br / br /The fact that the police detective befriended the boy was okay. Cops sometimes do that sort of thing. They like to play big brother (in a positive way), but I could not believe that Will would refuse to help Amira's son when she is literally on her knees begging him! Minghella played it in this artificial way so as to set up the climactic scene when Will and Liv arrive together at the hearing. In real life Will could not say no when Amira is begging him because (1) he does want to help the boy, (2) she still has the power to embarrass Will and his wife even though she has given him the incriminating photo negatives, (3) it is totally out of character for him to suddenly care so much about the affair coming out, and (4) he immediately confesses it to his wife anyway. br / br /In the scene when Will returns to his wife after the stakeout smelling of the prostitute's perfume, we have Liv smelling it, and then when he opts for a shower, she pulls him close for immediate sex. I think he should have explained it. After all, he was not involved with the prostitute. He rejected her and that would be believable. In fact in his place I couldn't resist talking about this strange prostitute (played very enticingly by Vera Farmiga in a bit part). It would be interesting. Apparently Minghella was making some point by having Liv want to have sex with him immediately; however that was never developed. We are left imagining that the perfume or the thought of her husband with a prostitute somehow aroused her, which seems unlikely, but if that was the case, it needed to be developed. br / br /Why the robbers would come back to the scene of the crime a third time to commit yet the same crime in the same manner is beyond, I would think, the reach of most of the world's dumbest criminals, and these guys weren't that dumb. br / br /And there were some dangling strings: why DID the prostitute steal his car and then return it? Why was the boy so lost and then suddenly so repentant and seemingly on the right track? This was underdeveloped. br / br /The scene with the autistic daughter Bea at Will's workplace was played so heavy-handedly that we knew what was going to happen before it happened--and what was the point? By the way, her relationship with Will was also not fully developed. (Perhaps Minghella's script was too demanding for the director!) br / br /I am sorry to be so critical but this could have been an outstanding movie, and I get irritated when directors go to print so quickly. Minghella is never going to be a great director until he takes a page from Stanley Kubrick's book and polishes every scene and irons out the wrinkles. As it is, Breaking and Entering is a pretty good film, and certainly no Jude Law fan should miss it. Showing reviews 1-5 of 17 1 2 3 4 Next »

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