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Reviews Counted: 119
Fresh: 40
Rotten:79
Average Rating: 5.2/10
Consensus: This class warfare drama feels contrived and superficial: characters don’t act logically as the movie manipulates them towards deconstructing various social issues.
Theatrical Release: Dec 15, 2006 Limited
Box Office: $880,510
Synopsis: BREAKING AND ENTERING may lack the quality and scope of Anthony Minghella's previous work such as THE ENGLISH PATIENT and COLD MOUNTAIN, but it's an interesting, character-driven drama. Jude Law (CLOSER) plays Will, a landscape... [More]
Starring: Jude Law, Juliette Binoche, Robin Wright Penn, Martin Freeman
Director: Anthony Minghella
Though intricately plotted and well acted, Minghella's characters feel more like symbols than flesh-and-blood characters, and their travails seem designed to illustrate a lecture about privilege, injustice, cultural stereotypes and bourgeois complacency.
The complicated interactions involving class and culture that ensue between all these characters remain fascinating even when they seem overly schematic.
Top Critic Though Binoche does very solid work, she can't sell the idea of her and Law as a couple; the chemistry isn't there. Not much else rings true in Minghella's screenplay, which is full of coincidences and speeches about race and class.
Top Critic Everything in Anthony Minghella's Breaking and Entering is torn and in need of mending....And like the flaw's set within the confines of the film, the movie itself is in need of a little tinkering itself.
The pitch meeting must have been frightening: "Caché for fans of Chocolat."
Un drama urbano muy contemporáneo que explora superficialmente ciertas realidades sociales, pero que presta más atención a las crisis domésticas de sus personajes. Podría haber sido mucho más interesante.
Minghella signe une %u0153uvre enivrante énumérant avec tact et intelligence les valeurs d'honnêteté, de respect et de confiance découlant de chacune de ses résolutions de conflit.
Class friction and the ensuing cinema of paranoia evidence of the growing class divide on screen
...a handsome but regrettably underpowered and preachy movie about liberal white guilt.
When Vera Farmiga shows up as a ridiculous Romanian prostitute, we want to give her money just so she'll remain onscreen and continue to flash her chest and her phony accent and offer at least the promise of titillation.
A story of thievery and a torrid love affair, it takes a capable filmmaker and a skilled cast and locks them up in a holding cell of pretense.
Despite its title, Breaking and Entering doesn't crack these characters and doesn't let us see inside them...
Deserves to be celebrated as a work that comes closer than any other to achieving what the filmmaker does best: Reminding us that no matter what is happening on a larger scale, we are defined by our interpersonal relationships.
A restrained, low-key chamber piece about immigration and gentrification, and the emotional quicksand associated with marital betrayal.
The events that unfold never feel completely authentic. And its optimistic message of forgiveness feels too pat, as one character jokes in another context, to be contagious.
This is a smart, elegant, sophisticated film that should be everything I want to see in a movie and yet fails to be because it's missing that one enigmatic element, the hardest to capture, the most unfakeable: spirit.
Since the movie is about mending class differences, Minghella manufactures a hopeful ending that wants to have it all--just as he wants his London to have it all--but which instead only rings false.
Despite its arty construction and clever dialogue, Breaking and Entering leaves us too chilly to care.
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