Breaking And Entering Movie
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Love is no ordinary crime.
Lie. Cheat. Steal. Love.
A mother and her daughter, a mother and her son, and a man living with one and attracted to the other. Miro, a teen from Sarajevo, lives near King's Cross with his mother; he's nimble, able to run across roofs, so his uncle hires him to break into office skylights, so the uncle can boost computers. Twice they steal from Will's architectural firm, so Will stakes it out at night. He follows Miro home and returns the next day and meets Miro's mother, Amira. At home, Will's relationship with Liv is strained - he feels outside Liv and her daughter Bea's circle. The stakeout and Amira's vulnerability are attractive alternatives to being at home. The police, too, watch Miro.
| Jude Law | Will Francis |
| Vera Farmiga | Oana |
| Juliette Binoche | Amira |
| Robin Wright Penn | Liv |
| Martin Freeman | Sandy |
| Rafi Gavron | Miro |
| Ray Winstone | Bruno Fella |
| Poppy Rogers | Bea |
| Mark Benton | Legge |
| Juliet Stevenson | Rosemary |
| Caroline Chikezie | Erika |
| Rad Lazar | Dragan |
| Ed Westwick | Zoran |
| Branka Katic | Tanya |
| Velibor Topic | Vlado |
| Anthony Minghella |
6.40 out of 10 (1498 votes)
Visitor Reviews
A must buy!
posted on 16 Aug 2009You can only distinguish honesty if you know dishonesty.I fell in love with Minghella only with Cold Mountain (loved, loved). So i was looking forward for this movie. And i didn't get disappointed. At all.And i loved how he mixed moments of great tension with some humor. That's Vera Farmiga's character. Very funny. She play's a prostitute who hangs with Will (Jude Law) when he plants himself outside his office (the object of breaking and entering).At first it was weird to see Binoche as a Bosnian mom. But she plays it wonderfully, even speaking the language! Jude Law is very charming, as always, giving a great charisma to his character.The end may be a little too perfect, but the movie is good for itself.A delight!
soft and clever
posted on 27 Jul 2009I found it pleasant for many reasons, although it is a little bit depressing. Provides a close-up picture of peculiar aspects of London and Londoner's life, with men and women behaving cruelly and cheating on each other and moreover handles intimate issues in an elegant and intelligent way. In "Breaking and entering" we watch people engaged in heart games but we also know about topics like sex interface, race and class; intellectually speaking the experiment is certainly worthy of wide attention, though not brand new, and definitely works successfully. As for the emotional level everything passed the examination for sure
Finding Light In The Darkest Places
posted on 27 Jul 2009There is a compelling need for redemption in Anthony Minghella's characters. The need itself is so blatantly human that sometimes, you have to look away. The plea of the characters is as diverse as it is identical. Don't ask me to explain, I may ruin the whole thought just by trying an intellectual explanation when in fact it only makes sense viscerally. Jude Law is back in top form and I for one want to cheer. He is extraordinary. Extraordinary! Juliette Binoche's Bosnian mom is another miracle of truth in her already magnificent gallery of truthful characters. Her son, played beautifully by Rafi Gavron doesn't allow us to take anything for granted. Robin Wright Penn's Liv is truly Bergmanesque and provides the perfect icy foil for Jude Law's longing. I came out of the theater drained and reinvigorated. That in itself is a huge recommendation.
Ethical pablum.
posted on 25 Jul 2009This is a film of the times. Confused, soulless and rich with the narcissistic Angst of the wealthy. But, after all is said and done, the wealthy control projects which are staffed by superstars. The acting is excellent, as would be expected of Ms. Binoche, Ms. Wright, Mr. Winstone and Mr. Law. The script is halting, labored, overly mannered. The story has no ethical point whatsoever, though it implies a great deal of depth in that area. All the behaviors of the tortured characters are muddied in motivation and equivocation. We are supposed to believe that the Serb-Bosnian adolescent is really a great kid, when he's not being and accomplished thief/acrobat. We are supposed to believe that the English detective, played by Winstone, who is a slum kid grown into a modern angry man, sees this immigrant kid as a poor Dickensian waif, worthy of a second (albeit third or fourth) chance. The wealthy protagonist, played by Law, is so screwed up he has to be told what to do to be compassionate or ethical or even human. He seems somehow absolved by the script for being a self-absorbed, spoiled, whining prig. This is a film which will be viewed twenty years hence by an audience which may well say, "What were they thinking?" Like all those 1980s movies with big hair and shoulder pads. And, speaking of the 1980s, just say "No" to this one if you have the choice.
Too much like a student production
posted on 17 Jun 2009I was really looking forward to seeing this film. Anthony Minghella's previous collaborations with Jude Law and Juliette Binoche (The Talented Mr Ripley and Cold Mountain, The English Patient) were excellent, and I expected something similar from Breaking and Entering.I was disappointed. Anthony Minghella was so intent on making his film full of meaning, I felt like I was watching a student production. Metaphors and symbols were being thrust at the audience left, right and centre. This excessive usage of look at me, I'm so clever techniques would probably have made a good novel, but on screen, it just didn't work. In short, this film is patronising and pretentious, and it wastes the excellent talents who unfortunately chose to help make it.The main problem with this film is that is has no soul. It left me feeling completely cold. The acting was excellent, the plot line was interesting and it had some rather obvious yet still thought provoking things to say about modern life, yet all the same, I felt like there was a wall between me and the characters, and I never felt involved or really that interested in their lives. It seems that in the constant efforts to make this film deep and meaningful, and not to mention almost embarrassingly politically correct, it sacrificed character development, focus and entertainment value.The other main problem with the film is that it is patronising; Minghella is attempting to give us an 'education', when we already know what he's telling us; obviously there is an incredibly unfair rich/poor divide in London, obviously people whose lives appear great on the surface can underneath be completely dissatisfied and want to escape, and obviously there is no perfect solution to life's problems. Minghella seems to think that he has some sort of higher understanding of human nature, and the way the world really works, when actually, he's just stating the obvious. Minghella obviously spends more time in Primrose Hill than King's Cross himself, and has lost touch with the average person in the process; we're not as thick as he thinks.If you go and see this film, you probably will find it strangely enjoyable despite its faults; I certainly wasn't bored, and Ray Winstone and the terrific Martin Freeman, plus Vera Farmiga as the prostitute, provide some much needed light relief in places. However, prepare to be patronised and don't expect to feel anything for the characters or be convinced by them; they're just cardboard characters cut out to illustrate the 'life lessons' Minghella is teaching us through his 'subtle' metaphors, symbols and Dawson's Creekesque dialogue. Pretentious, certainly. A waste of time? Not completely. Weirdly, despite everything I've said, I still enjoyed it. I wouldn't see it again, but I don't regret watching it in the first place.
Relationship Drama
posted on 09 Jun 2009Will (Jude Law) is an architect, married to a Swede, Liv (Robin Wright-Penn), who has a daughter,Bea from a previous marriage. Bea has some sort of mental disorder, and Liv seems depressed about it. Will is a loving family man but feels that there is still something missing from his home life. At work, he tries to construct a new building, at an undesirable area of London, called King's Cross. His building is burglarized by some young acrobatic teenagers so Will ends up staking out his construction site hoping to catch the perpetrators. While he does this from inside his car, a prostitute approaches him and Will becomes a client of hers.Like any other couples, Will and Liv have their fights and make up, so Will agreeing to a hooker, and yet trying to spice up his marriage, did not connect with this viewer. Even more surprising is he begins an affair with the mother of the teenage burglar. Amira (played by Juliette Binoche, doing a very good Bosnian accent), is a Muslim immigrant and seamstress who meets Will by chance at his step-daughter's gym practice. Will asks Amira for some tailoring to be done for him then begins an affair with her. When Amira's son Mero (Rafi Gavron) finds out Will has been to his place, he confesses to Amira what he has done. Amira and a friend then take pictures of her in bed with Will in hopes she can discredit Will from harming her son. Amira's loving protection of her son is the most plausible element of this movie.This is really a story about Will trying to find a broken link in his marriage to Liv and her daughter. Will and Liv, like their daughter, is upset then calm, then upset, then calm. Their relationships lacked any consistency so that Will having affairs is incomprehensible. Maybe Will's character could have been more fully developed, as well as Wright-Penn's Liv, so we can get a clue as to why Will does what he does. While, watching Will start these affairs, I was reminded by what some girlfriends have told me, "men are scum". Yet Will is really a decent guy. I enjoyed the pacing of this movie, and the cat and mouse game at King's Cross (really that's what makes most of this movie interesting) and I liked watching the young acrobats jump from building to building (better than Spider-Man, they're human). But what it lacks is thorough credibility. It's an engaging movie that could have used a little more livening up.
Synergy doesn't always work
posted on 03 Jun 2009Breaking and entering has two stories both of which have considerable potentials for full development (not to mention a few interesting side characters that are also rather tempting). With something starting rather haphazardly, it attempts to link the two main stories in such a way that they become interactive, fueling a third. It may be a little too harsh to call what the movie ends up with "a mess", but by trying to do too much, this movie simply gets nowhere. Coming out of the cinema, rather than wanting to reflect on what you have just witnessed, you would more likely miss brilliantly simple and simply brilliant movies such as "A straight story".Story number one is a problematic family. yuppie architect Will (Jude Law) and beautiful common-law (I suppose) Swedish wife Liv (Robin Wright Penn) could be in their blue heaven with 10-year old Bea (Poppy Rogers) making three. But they're not. Bea is only Will's step-daughter (not much background but not really important) which is not a big problem because Will is a decent and loving step-father who tries hard to make the family work. The problem is that Bea has a form of mental disorder that manifests itself in things like insomnia, hyper-tension and all sorts of phobia about what she eats.The second story stems from the fact that Will and his partner's office is in the undesirable area of King's Cross, the target of the two architects' project of revitalization. Two break-ins takes us to the life of 15-year-old delinquent Miro and his mother Amira (Juliette Binoche), Bosnian Muslim immigrants seeking a better life but finding a struggle against prejudice and poverty.And here's something that is not merely haphazard, but becomes far-fetched. In tracking down the thief, playing his own private detective, Will ends up having an affair with Amira. Her motivation, however, is more utilitarian than emotional, as it's a mother trying everything to protect her son. That part at least is not too far-fetched if you think of a character played by first class actress Tilda Swinton in a movie called "The deep end" (2001). And Boniche looks a lot better as a mother than a lover (think of her segment in "Paris, je t'aime").The biggest problem with this movie is the emphasis it places (or misplaces, rather) on the affair, which is entirely unconvincing and devoid of chemistry. Law recites the lines that he doesn't seem to believe in. The story of the vicissitude of mother and son comes across a lot better, with some touching moments. What is most interesting, however, is the relationship between Will and Liv. Law and Wright (sorry Sean!) have some good moments, dancing tantalizingly between an unsalvageable gulf and a normal (sometimes even health) fight between couples. I particularly like the scene when after a fight, they reconcile through talking about thing Swedish, ABBA, The Beatles etc.At the end of the day, this movie, as I said, is trying to do too much. It seems to want to rise above melodrama, to social, political, psychological drama and more, but ends up biting off more than it can chew, even for the director of "The English patient", "The talented Mr. Ripley" and "Cold mountain".
Fairly interesting drama about relationships.
posted on 03 Jun 2009The theme is "Breaking and Entering" but this movie is about relationships. The crime is just there to get the characters to meet. Interesting movie, not one of my favorites but good enough for one viewing.Jude Law is Will Francis, co-partner in an architect firm situated in the Kings-Cross area of London, one known for petty crime. Their office has been burglarized several times, and it must be by someone who knows the alarm code. They suspect the cleaning crew.Will has a 10-year partner, Robin Wright Penn as Swede Liv, who also has a 13 year old autistic daughter. Even though Will and Liv seem to get along well, he doesn't seem to be "inside the circle" which contains Liv and her daughter, even though the daughter refers to him as 'daddy.' Will decides to stake out his building at night and eventually discovers that a young boy, 15, is climbing onto the roof and through a skylight and with binoculars reads the alarm code punched in as the cleaning crew leaves. Then, he breaks into the building from overhead and punches in the code before the alarm activates. After that he opens the doors so the real thieves can make off with the valuable computer equipment.All this brings together the boy, Juliette Binoche as his mother Amira, and Will, not ready to be unfaithful to Liv but desperately looking for love.
Five tips to improve Breaking and Entering
posted on 06 May 2009Five tips to Anthony Minghella in order to make this a better film. 1. Change the courthouse scene. The way it is now makes you laugh. Which judge or law enforcer would believe such blatant lies? This scene makes a laughing stock of the British law system. (Besides, I don't get it. Why couldn't Will just say: OK, this bloke broke into my office, but I know his mother who mends my clothes and I want to give them both a break?)2. Change the scene where Amira FIRST gives Will the incriminating photos and THEN begs him to help her son. I mean, which woman in her right mind would do that? Why take the pictures in the first place if you don't use them? Also, her keeping the pictures would add a little suspicion to the story.3. Remove the scene where Liv gets out of the car, kicks it and then embraces Will. This is Hollywood melodrama of the worst kind. 4. Remove Bea's accident on the construction site. It distracts from the conversation with the police persons and doesn't serve any purpose in the story. 5. Cut out all the psychobabble about circles, cages, and dark places within oneself.
Very nice movie!
posted on 04 Apr 2009I got this film for the wife. Jude Law and all. But it turned out to be a very nice movie. It's best attribute is that almost all the characters involved are good people. They meet in various circumstances and their interaction is what makes the story.But it's so much better than, let's say, Crash, since it doesn't try to shock, it just shows a beautiful story.First of all, it's not a romantic movie. It has romance, but it is a real, personal type of a romance, not the boy-meets-girl crap. It's not an action movie, although one of the characters is a free runner. It's not a drama, since the suffering and happy moments are in balance.OK, I am not good describing this movie. I liked it. And I usually don't like movies like this. It's nice and worth watching.
Another triumph from Anthony Minghella
posted on 04 Apr 2009Jude Law plays Will, an architect who lives with Liv (Robin Wright Penn), a documentarian and her behaviorally challenged daughter. After a series of break-ins at his office, Will begins staking it out in order to find the culprit. This puts an extra strain on his already tenuous relationship with Liv. One night, he sees a young man breaking in. He shouts to him, and when the kid runs away, Will pursues him.Will follows the kid, Miro, to his apartment in a rundown area. At once he becomes entranced by Miro's mother Amira, an refugee from Serbia who works as a seamstress. Will invents reasons to keep coming back to see Amira. They soon begin an affair. He out of lust, boredom and a lack of intimacy at home. Amira has ulterior motives. She believes if she keeps sleeping with Will he won't turn in Miro.As Will grows closer to Amira, he begins to pull away from Liv. The tension and uneasiness grow until the spacious rooms of their posh townhouse are full of all the things they can't seem to say to each other.Anthony Minghella uses this setup to explore the issues of trust, love and honesty in the intertwining relationships of these characters. As always, he proves himself to be an intelligent and insightful writer. His story and characters are authentic and every emotion is real. He is also an outstanding director. He has an excellent sense of pace, tone, and the composition.The entire cast is fantastic. Jude Law gives his most mature and honest performance to date. Juliette Binoche's accent is superb and she finds the soul of Amira. Robin Wright Penn excels at playing emotionally distant women and she is able to communicate all of Liv's submerged emotions with small gestures or looks. Rafi Gavron, who plays Miro, despite this being his debut, holds his own among these seasoned pros.Benoit Delhomme's muted grey-tinged cinematography is drastically different than his golden sun burnished work in The Proposition, but no less beautiful. Walter Murch's editing is near flawless. Gabriel Yared has collaborated with Karl Hyde and Rick Smith to create a score that is rich and modern.
simply awful (SPOILERS!!! - PLEASE DON'T READ if you didn't see the movie)
posted on 02 Apr 2009I just saw this movie and I'm simply disappointed. The movie was boring, the story loses its plot and is out of the track most of the time, only proper acting by well-known actors compensates a bit.The whole story with the prostitute in Will's car is just useless, and I think it was made up as a filler between the main story, because something must be happening in the movie, right?The ending is so screwed up I just can't believe it - I was expecting Will not to hold charges against the boy, but unexpectedly he makes up this stupid story about borrowing his notebook and all that stuff, and his wife confirms that (sic!) - what a nonsense! This movie is a waste of money and time - DON'T WATCH IT! Cheers
A bit confusing at times BUT none-the-less a FIRST RATE dramatic love story.
posted on 29 Mar 2009This very finely written & directed film by Anthony Minghella had a very limited run.I just cannot figure this out. AWFUL comedies like "40 Yr Old Virgin" play in over 3000 theatres & this real good movie & many other good films like CHILDREN OF MEN have next to no release at all. As per the old song from THE KING & I "Tis a Puzzlement"The title has a few meanings in itself,(SPOILER ALERT) It is not the robbery at the beginning of the film, It is the breaking of the emotions of the characters & entering there psyche, that this film is about.Jude Law is an architect creating a building at KINGS CROSS a London neighborhood. The area is like a miniature United Nations, We are dealing here as well with the breaking & entering of various diverse peoples thoughts etc,Robin Wright Penn lives with Jude & they have a delightful daughter about 10 years old with problems as well.Newcomer Rafi Gavron (one of the robbers who broke into Jude Laws building) is a refugee lad from Bosnia living with his mother played by the magnificent Juliet Binoche. as you can guess Jude & Juliet meet, & have an affair.Now enter in the picture Ray Winstone as a policeman, & future STAR Vera Farigna as a prostitute., We break & enter into all these persons psyche,due to the clever & skillful screen play by Mr, Minghella.ASs you can see at times this becomes a bit confusing BUT the acting by all is superb, I wish the Oscar people gave out an award for outstanding cast like the Emmy's & the Golden Globes'do. This film would have been nominated. The entire cast is just about pitch perfect.Thanks to the excellent direction Of Mr. Minghella.A few more notes then I will finish. this is Rafi Gavrons first feature he is only about 20 years old (I did not look his age up), he does portray a slightly younger lad, & I do predict a bright future for him.Now on to the main star JUDE LAW, When OH when is he going to get his Oscar.. He is like the old time actors from the 30's & 40's . He can do dramatic loves stories, comedies,He even can do villains. & gives excellent performances in all. He has a smile & charm that is dazzling,. in short HE IS A STAR.Rent this film, I am sure you will like it.Ratings ***1/2 (out of 4) 92 points (out of 100) IMDb 9 (out of 10)
Second Chance
posted on 27 Mar 2009In London, the British architect Will (Jude Law) lives with his Swedish mate Liv (Robin Wright Penn) a worn-out relationship, without the former passion, consumed by the dedication of Liv to her autistic daughter Bea (Poppy Rogers). The needy of love Will and his partner Sandy (Martin Freeman) have an ambitious architectural project to improve the dangerous neighborhood of King's Cross where their firm Green Effect is located. The practitioner of parkour and refugee from Serbia Mirsade a.k.a. Miro (Rafi Gavron) breaks in Green Effect in the night to deactivate the alarm system to burgle computers and others electronic devices with a gang of compatriots leaded by his uncle. Will decides to stake-out during the nights to find the culprit, and he witnesses Miro trying to break-in the firm again. Will pursues Miro and finds his address, where Miro lives with his seamstress mother Amira (Juliette Binoche). Will does not call the police, and on the next day, he visits Amira with the pretext of sewing a coat. Will gets closer to Amira, visiting her everyday, and more distant from Liv, When Miro finds that Will had been in his room, he tells the truth to his mother and she decides to give Will's laptop back to him. Will sexually desires Amira and she has an encounter with him to get pictures to compromise and blackmail him."Breaking and Entering" is another great movie of Anthony Minghella that explores the theme of second chance in life through a dramatic triangle of love of the needy lead character and the maternal love of two mothers. Jude Law performs a successful but needy of love architect that misses the passion and attention of his girlfriend; Robin Wright Penn neglects her mate and gives her total attention to her daughter; and Juliette Binoche is a Serbian refugee capable of any sacrifice to save her son from prison. Their daughter Bea and son Miro are the key elements that trigger the plot. The lead trio has magnificent and credible interpretations and the story concludes with a final non-commercial redemption. My vote is eight.Title (Brazil): "Invasão de Domicílio" ("Invasion of Domicile")
Anthony...
posted on 19 Mar 2009Risky, risky shots is what Anthony Minghella and his team have achieved here. Things that belong far away from the the classy style of "The talented Mr. Ripley" and the classic style of "Cold Mountain". There's also a risky screenplay, an original one by the director that also stands on a different level compared to his previous adapted efforts. But what a way to keep up the good work the man has! This is because there are things that also remain the same; the kind of things that define a director's work: like actors direction. You really need to watch Jude Law in an Anthony Minghella film because the director has made him portray all sorts of things, but here you can catch him as an everyday man, and sense his reactions to the dramatic and comic situations in a way he's not shown before. Instantly compared to "Closer", Law's work here is much more mature.He plays Will Francis, an architect that has a project and office in a not so safe place of London: King's Cross. Now, I lived in London for six months and most of the places are known to me, but I'd never seen them from Minghella's perspective here. There's a robbery in the film and Will chases the aggressor, a kid, and after a series of events ends up involved with his mom Amira, played by Juliette Binoche...Yes, involved like the "Closer" type of involvement.Maybe it's because Juliette Binoche can play any character and resolve any scene, but putting her character and Law's together in such a common place as the Millennium Bridge doesn't sound good with a simple look. However, in that scene Will attempts to kiss Amira; the way she rejects that kiss and the tiny instant which shows Will's afterthoughts, eliminates every other possibility and makes something good of the scene. "Breaking and entering" is a movie about decisions, but the decisions are not evidently presented and they're not necessarily life-changing. I remember the actions of Patrick Marber's characters in "Closer", so brilliantly ruthless, but not very explained. Minghella's screenplay here leaves the viewer no doubt that every action done by every character is justified. The kid, Miro (a promising Rafi Gavron), robs an office because he needs to prove something to himself; a detective (unexpected Ray Winstone) looks for him and tries to talk about the issue because he senses the boy has some good inside him; Will does what he does (the good and the bad) because he's a kind person; his wife (Robin Wright Penn) makes a choice because she understands. And Amira, she's like every other mother that will go to end of the world for his son...Not caring if he's right or wrong. Mother's love is impossible to explain.
What a dud!
posted on 22 Jan 2009I do not like to speak ill of the dead (except Hitler and Stalin) but this awful, awful film showed that Anthony Minghella's career was on the slide when he unfortunately passed away. Not that I have liked any of his previous efforts - Truly, Madly, Deeply was an unbelievable bad joke, English Patient overblown with repellent characters, Cold Mountain a waste of space and ridiculously portentous after the big explosion! This though is an attempt at a noughties art-house cross between Antonioni and Bergman that is boring, artificial with again totally uninteresting characters. Jude Law cannot open a film (he just repeats his Closer persona who is looking for love but cannot stop sha***** other women), Robin Wright Penn is a moody Swede going nowhere who is a double of Ulrika Jonsson! Juliette Binoche is prepared to get her kit off to blackmail and not look too good in the nude - brave but irrelevant!And how can you go with a script where the hero talks to his dysfunctional step daughter about communicating to each other in metaphors!! An original screenplay that sounds and looks like a stage play! Possibly the worst and most unprofessional aspect of this movie is the absolutely awful quality of the lypsynching! Give it a miss - theatre audiences obviously did!
Robberies change a young man's life.
posted on 29 Dec 2008I found this rather boring, in spite of a multitude of critics raving about it. Will Francis(Jude Law)is a partner in a landscape architecture firm that has recently relocated to a different location. The thriving state-of-the-art business now located in a seedy part of town is attractive to a local gang of thieves. Will's partner(Martin Freeman)is aggravated as much as Will with the repeated robberies. Will going in search of the criminals follows a young man to an apartment that he shares with his mother Armira(Juliette Binoche). In spite of having a very lovely wife(Robin Wright Penn), the young architect enters into a torrid affair with Armira and begins his walk on the wilder side. The attraction to this film must be Law. Others in the cast: Rafi Gavron, Vera Farmiga and Poppy Rogers.
another high quality movie from Minghella
posted on 11 Dec 2008One of the most enjoyable films I have watched this year. Strong acting and direction with constant suspense almost to the very end. Juliet Binoche is outstanding , and Ray Winstone plays a strong support role as a sympathetic detective. Not every one rates Jude Law , but he is well cast in this , and I could not help think that there might be something semi autobiographical in the role that he plays. The views of London are good and there is plenty to think about in this movie as well , overcrowding , poverty , lack of opportunity for the young , personal relationships in the busy lives that we lead. to sum up , a movie that we all should go and see , relevant to our modern lives.
Juliette Binoche steals the show
posted on 24 Oct 2008Breaking and Entering meanders in the beginning and becomes more about infidelity than anything else. I thought the film really picked up once Juliette Binoche entered in as the main camera presence - about from the 2nd half on. Her character and acting were 1st rate as a scared, lonely, mother. Jude Law also turns in a performance perhaps better than some of his other movies. Their romance is strange but more believable and far more captivating than his steady relationship with Robin Wright Penn's character. As it was then, I didn't really care much for the family exposition with Law as a live-in boyfriend. It didn't give anything back. And Penn's daughter as having developmental/behavioral problems is distractingly annoying. So, the 2nd half of the movie really made it a worthy watch, especially with Binoche.
Inconsistent Movie
posted on 22 Aug 2009When I first came to check for info on this movie, I thought this would be a bad (or at least, not very good) movie.But this movie surprised me, it catched me almost from the beginning, the big problem is that it loses you in the middle, and then picks you back up a little further down the road. It's a movie full of ups and downs in interest, otherwise it could have had a better review I suppose.I didn't care much for Jude Laws performance (not that is was bad, it was nothing special), but I really liked Juliette Binoche in this movie (and I not her biggest fan) you can feel real emotions with her acting, and for me she's the main reason to stick with the movie when it's loosing you.As for the hole plot of the movie, I would say it's interesting, not very believable though.This movie shouldn't be your top pick of the week, but definitely try to watch it.