Breaking and Entering is directed by none other than Anthony Minghella, of The English Patient fame. That alone should signal a mature movie for adults.
The majority of the characters in the movie appear in the thirties (early forties). There’s a young boy who is crucial to the plot but he’s mature for his age.
The movie starts with Will Francis (Jude Law) his partner Sandy (Martin Freeman) who have just opened an office in area of London (King’s Cross) that’s of bad reputation. As architects, it’s their task to embark on the biggest urban renewal project in recent London history, a task usually accomplished with concrete and a bit of greenery.
Just as their iMacs and iBooks arrive, they are robbed not once but twice. The boy who does the “breaking and entering” is Miro (Rafi Gavron), a Bosnian boy, living with his mother Amira (Juliette Binoche). During the second “breaking”, Jude Law follows the boy (in a feat resembling the early Rambo).
To cut the long story short, Will has an affair with Amira, which strains further his relationship with Liv (Robin Wright Penn). There’s a brief but memorable appearance by Vera Farmiga as a Romanian prostitute.
Overall, I liked the movie. Todd MCCARTHY from Variety sums it up better than me:
Entirely respectable in every way, it nonetheless has a very cool body temperature and thus likely will inspire polite admiration rather than excitement among viewers…
Definitely rent it as a DVD, I’m looking forward to any specials on the disc.
beautiful and subtle movie…nice review!