Breaking and Entering
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Directed by	Anthony Minghella
Produced by	Timothy Bricknell Anthony Minghella Sydney Pollack
Written by	Anthony Minghella
Starring	Jude Law Juliette Binoche Robin Wright Penn Martin Freeman Ray Winstone
Music by	Gabriel Yared Underworld
Cinematography	Benoît Delhomme
Editing by	Lisa Gunning
Distributed by	- USA - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) The Weinstein Company - non-USA - Miramax Films
Release date(s)	December 8, 2006 (limited)
Running time	116 minutes
Language	English
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Breaking and Entering, a 2006 romantic drama, is Academy Award-winning director Anthony Minghella's first original screenplay since his 1991 feature debut, Truly, Madly, Deeply.

The film stars Jude Law – whom Minghella directed in Cold Mountain and The Talented Mr. Ripley – and Juliette Binoche, from The English Patient, also directed by Anthony Minghella.

In a major supporting role, Robin Wright Penn plays Liv, the long-standing girlfriend of Will (Jude Law's character).

Rafi Gavron, in his first major film role, portrays Miro. The role, that of a young traceur, and the burglar to which the film's title partly alludes, requires Gavron to perform several difficult physical feats.

The film, shot and set in Kings Cross, a blighted, inner-city neighbourhood of London, examines an affair which unfolds between a successful British landscape architect and a Bosnian woman – the mother of a troubled teen son – who was widowed by the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

It is a presentation of Miramax Films and The Weinstein Company and was distributed in the U.S. by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM).
Breaking and Entering premiered at September 13, 2006 at the Toronto International Film Festival.^[1]

[edit] Plot

Will Francis (Jude Law) is a young landscape architect living a cold, routine-based life with his girlfriend Liv (Robin Wright Penn) and her behaviourally challenged daughter Bea in London. After his state-of-the-art offices in the Kings Cross area are repeatedly burgled, he stakes out the building hoping to catch the culprit. Spotting a teenage traceur (Rafi Gavron) attempting to break in, Will attempts to follow him. This pursuit leads Will to the mysterious Amira (Juliette Binoche), a seamstress with whom he becomes emotionally entangled, causing him to re-evaluate his life. Conflict arises when the police close in on the burglars, and Will must make a crucial choice which will affect the lives of everyone around him.

[edit] Tagline

• Love is no ordinary crime.

[edit] Cast

[edit] Primary cast

• Jude Law ... Will Francis
• Juliette Binoche .... Amira
• Robin Wright Penn .... Liv

[edit] Supporting Cast

• Martin Freeman .... Sandy
• Ray Winstone .... Bruno Fella
• Vera Farmiga .... Oana
• Rafi Gavron .... Miro
• Poppy Rogers .... Bea
• Juliet Stevenson .... Rosemary

[edit] Soundtrack

Main article: Breaking and Entering (soundtrack)

Jude Law and Juliette Binoche experience an avalanche of conflicting emotion in "Breaking and Entering."

Gabriel Yared and Underworld collaborated on the film's original music score.

[edit] Trivia

• The techniques used to burgle Green Effect come from parkour, a physical discipline and recreational activity of French origin whose practitioners are called traceurs. Sometimes confused with free running, a related discipline derived from parkour, the art, as it is called by some practitioners, has gained in popularity in urban areas, particularly in Europe, during the early 21st century.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official website
• Breaking and Entering at the Internet Movie Database
• External Reviews at IMDb
• Breaking and Entering trailers at IMDb
• photo gallery