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Breaking And Entering (2007) DVD Review
Breaking And Entering (2007) DVD Credits:
Breaking And Entering (2007) Directed by:
Anthony Minghella
Breaking And Entering (2007) Written by:
Anthony Minghella
Breaking And Entering (2007) Cast:
Jude Law, Vera Farmiga, Juliette Binoche, Robin Wright Penn, Martin Freeman
Breaking And Entering (2007) Released by:
Not available at this time
Region:
1
Breaking And Entering (2007) DVD Release Date:
7th May 2007
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Breaking And Entering (2007) Synopsis:

A Landscape Architect's dealings with a young thief cause him to re-evaluate his life.

Breaking And Entering (2007) DVD Review:

One of the highest compliments to give a film, in my humble opinion, is that it is unpredictable. Many films follow pre-determined formulas which allow for us to know what is going to happen long before it arrives. Perhaps this is just predictability for sake of lack of originality or perhaps it is an overly intelligent audience. I hardly think it is the latter. Regardless, Breaking and Entering seems to be a traditional adultery film from the premise, but there is far much more going on in Anthony Minghella’s (Academy Award-Winning director of The English Patient and Cold Mountain) script, making for a complex and unpredictable slice of reality drawn together with fantastic direction and three entirely believable performances.

Jude Law continues to build his impressive repertoire of intensely compelling performances as an idealistic architect with the project of brightening up and improving an urban area in London. His offices are in a bad neighborhood in a large warehouse, which causes him and his partner to be robbed on several occasions. After waiting in his car for several weeks he finally sees the young boy who continuously robs him, eventually following him back to his home, where he lives with his immigrant mother (Juliette Binoche). Instead of telling the police he returns later and eventually begins an affair with the mother, despite his long-term relationship with another woman (Robin Wright Penn) who has a teenager daughter with a learning disability. Although the two aren’t married and the child is not his, he might as well be a part of the family until things start to go wrong. Lately things have not been great between them, which leads him to his affair with a poor woman whose son is stealing from him.

Although Breaking and Entering is clearly an adultery film, there are far more complex characters than are usually found in these films, and therefore more options as to how the film can be played out and resolved, whereas most adultery films inevitably have scenes of crying confession and punishment usually paid to the “other” woman. For sake of the unpredictability I spoke of earlier, I will refrain from giving away the ending, but I found that it left me far more satisfied than most adultery films do, which may be a condemning fact depending on how you view the film’s ending.

The DVD has a commentary track with writer/director Anthony Minghella as well as a making of featurette for the film as well. These two features are the staple of the special features which also contains six deleted scenes and a theatrical trailer.

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Breaking And Entering (2007) DVD review written by: Ryan Izay

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