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Genres:
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Drama /
Romance /
Thriller /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Anthony Minghella
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Actors:
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Robin Wright Penn,
Velibor Topic,
Poppy Rogers,
Ting Ting Hu,
Rad Lazar,
Romi Aboulafia,
Eleanor Matsuura,
Jude Law,
Martin Freeman,
Rafi Gavron,
Ed Westwick,
Serge Soric,
Anna Chancellor,
Juliette Binoche,
Lisa Kay
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Duration:
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120 min.
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Rating:
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(6.6/10)144.5
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Plot Summary:
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A Scene Architect's dealings with a immature thief precipitate him to re-judge his life.
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Breaking and Entering
A series of burglaries makes architect Jude Law re-evaluate his life in this London-set drama from English Patient director Anthony Minghella
Returning to contemporary London for the first time since his 1991 debut feature Truly, Madly, Deeply, Oscar-winning director Anthony Minghella presents an intelligent, engrossing, somewhat cerebral exploration of modern lives in crisis. Jude Law plays Will, a successful yuppie architect with a beautiful Swedish girlfriend (Wright Penn) who comes to question his philanthropic decision to relocate to rundown King's Cross when local tearaway Miro (Gavron) breaks into his swanky offices and nabs his cherished laptop. Rather than shopping the lad to the rozzers, Will embarks on an affair with his Bosnian refugee mo...
faking and entering
This is not actually a bad film. The problem with it is just that there's an unmistakeable whiff of implausibility about the whole thing. Jude Law is a saintly middle class architect (who never seems to actually do much work, beyond donning a hard hat every now and again or appearing in promotional videos talking about 'nature doesn't just mean green') who takes an extraordinarily liberal approach to having his office burgled, his laptop taken - with his 'entire life' stored on it - and his car stolen.
It's such a middle-class view of the world, at odds with reality. The teenage burglar turns out, of course, to be a sensitive and intelligent kid who's been led astray by his dodgy relatives, the mother is a (beautiful) refugee from Sarajevo who just ne...
Breaking and Entering
This London melodrama certainly gives the auteur theory a concrete overcoat. As shots of Lewis Cubitts famed...
Breaking and Entering
Gleam Winstone is sharp as razor blades playing the investigative detective. Vera Farmiga...provides funny and lively below average-colour commentary...
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