Breaking and Entering is easy enough to pick holes in. Underpinning its soft middlebrow humanism is an interesting attempt to depict the way parallel, separate societies co-exist in the same area of a city, rarely meeting one another; although it’s a pity this is then spun out into a less than credible romance between middle-class architect Jude Law and Bosnian immigrant seamstress Juliette Binoche(!). But I still prefer this to Minghella’s big budget literary adaptations (The English Patient or Cold Mountain) and the film is impressively spot-on in its depiction of the way a marriage can devolve over a number of years into tiredness and anomie (too spot-on, if you’ve been there yourself).
by Ian Johnston | Source: Weinstein DVD
09 Oct 2007 1:31 PM | Submit Comment