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<strong>Title:</strong> Breaking and Entering<br/>
<strong>Year:</strong> 2006<br/>
<strong>Director:</strong> Anthony Minghella<br/>
<strong>Plot:</strong> A petty thief is the link between a well-to-do businessman and a single mother struggling to get by in his edgy, emotional drama. Will Francis (<a href="/players/P___230573/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Jude Law</a>) is a successful landscape architect who runs an upscale business with his friend Sandy (<a href="/players/P___359766/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Martin Freeman</a>) in the King's Cross section of London, a neighborhood that has long been plagued by crime and poverty but has lately become the target of a major gentrification program. Will is married to Liv (<a href="/players/P____77633/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Robin Wright Penn</a>), a lovely woman who is troubled by a lack of communication between herself and her husband and emotional problems with their teenage daughter, Bea (Poppy Rogers), who can't sleep and is obsessed with gymnastics. A thief has broken into Will and Sandy's office not once but twice, taking Will's laptop and the company's computer equipment, and Will begins spending his evenings at the shop in hopes of catching the culprit in action. The burglar strikes a third time, and while giving chase, Will sees him make his way into a shabby apartment building. Will learns the criminal is Miro (Rafi Gavron), a 15-year-old refugee from Bosnia. Without revealing what he knows, Will makes the acquaintance of Amira (<a href="/players/P_____6261/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Juliette Binoche</a>), Miro's widowed mother who makes a living as a seamstress. As Will begins bringing Amira business on a regular basis, the two strike up a friendship that grows into something much deeper while he keeps his secrets about Miro's criminal activities, though they boy knows his mother's frequent visitor is the lawful owner of the laptop in his room. Breaking & Entering was written and directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker <a href="/players/P___102995/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Anthony Minghella</a>; it was his first project made from his own original script since Truly, Madly, Deeply in 1991. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
<br><br><b>Interview with Anthony Minghella about <i>Breaking and Entering</i></b><br>Can you say, "Anthony Minghella?!?!" Aaron conducts a video interview of this great director.<br>(11/10/2006 Starz Denver Film Festival)<br><br>Audio<br><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0" width="165" height="30" id="mp" align="left"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" /><param name="movie" value="http://spoutblog.com/podcast_files/mp.swf" /><param name="loop" value="false" /><param name="menu" value="false" /><param name="quality" value="best" /><param name="salign" value="lt" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" /><embed src="http://spoutblog.com/podcast_files/mp.swf" loop="false" menu="false" quality="best" salign="lt" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="165" height="30" name="mp" align="left" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" /></object><br /><br />Video<br><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/KaeK8Nvrank"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/KaeK8Nvrank" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>
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<strong>Times Tagged:</strong> 22<br/>
<strong>Number of Lists:</strong> 9<br/>
<strong>Number of blog posts:</strong> 7<br/>
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<strong>SpoutRating:</strong> 3<br/>
</td></tr></table>]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 13:03:52 GMT</pubDate><spout:Title>Breaking and Entering</spout:Title><spout:Year>2006</spout:Year><spout:Director>Anthony Minghella</spout:Director><spout:Plot>A petty thief is the link between a well-to-do businessman and a single mother struggling to get by in his edgy, emotional drama. Will Francis (&lt;a href="/players/P___230573/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;Jude Law&lt;/a&gt;) is a successful landscape architect who runs an upscale business with his friend Sandy (&lt;a href="/players/P___359766/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;Martin Freeman&lt;/a&gt;) in the King's Cross section of London, a neighborhood that has long been plagued by crime and poverty but has lately become the target of a major gentrification program. Will is married to Liv (&lt;a href="/players/P____77633/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;Robin Wright Penn&lt;/a&gt;), a lovely woman who is troubled by a lack of communication between herself and her husband and emotional problems with their teenage daughter, Bea (Poppy Rogers), who can't sleep and is obsessed with gymnastics. A thief has broken into Will and Sandy's office not once but twice, taking Will's laptop and the company's computer equipment, and Will begins spending his evenings at the shop in hopes of catching the culprit in action. The burglar strikes a third time, and while giving chase, Will sees him make his way into a shabby apartment building. Will learns the criminal is Miro (Rafi Gavron), a 15-year-old refugee from Bosnia. Without revealing what he knows, Will makes the acquaintance of Amira (&lt;a href="/players/P_____6261/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;Juliette Binoche&lt;/a&gt;), Miro's widowed mother who makes a living as a seamstress. As Will begins bringing Amira business on a regular basis, the two strike up a friendship that grows into something much deeper while he keeps his secrets about Miro's criminal activities, though they boy knows his mother's frequent visitor is the lawful owner of the laptop in his room. Breaking &amp; Entering was written and directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker &lt;a href="/players/P___102995/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;Anthony Minghella&lt;/a&gt;; it was his first project made from his own original script since Truly, Madly, Deeply in 1991. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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      <title>Spout Post: Breaking and Entering (2006)</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/blogs/kowalski76/archive/2008/10/12/36216.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/s263486.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 10/12/2008 9:03:52 AM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> Note: This review was written before the death of its writer/director 'Anthony Minghella'. Anthony Minghella's first original screenplay since 1991's Truly Madly Deeply is a garbled and somewhat lumbering affair between two sets of people from opposite sides of the social divide. His plot feels as forced as a smile on Anne Robinson's face, which in turn makes the performances labored and leaves the whole thing lacking plausibility.   I expected much more from this cast.  London comes out the only winner here -- un-cliched, oozing with grime and always an interesting subject to view. Still, not a good enough reason to watch this film.<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 13:03:52 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>Kowalski76</spout:postby><spout:postto>Rebellious Celluloid</spout:postto><spout:postdate>10/12/2008 9:03:52 AM</spout:postdate><spout:body>Note: This review was written before the death of its writer/director 'Anthony Minghella'. Anthony Minghella's first original screenplay since 1991's Truly Madly Deeply is a garbled and somewhat lumbering affair between two sets of people from opposite sides of the social divide. His plot feels as forced as a smile on Anne Robinson's face, which in turn makes the performances labored and leaves the whole thing lacking plausibility.   I expected much more from this cast.  London comes out the only winner here -- un-cliched, oozing with grime and always an interesting subject to view. Still, not a good enough reason to watch this film.</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: Life is complicated</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/blogs/chrismorrell/archive/2008/3/18/26373.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/s263486.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 3/18/2008 6:56:52 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong>  This weaves some complex emotional themes well, i thought. Cast is superb...Juliette Binoche is extraordinary, Jude Law just has to be there ...Robin wright Penn looks like Julie Christie...the likes of Martin Freeman and Ray Winstone make this reassuringly humanistic..Maybe overreaches itself,but the story is expertly told...<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:56:52 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>chrismorrell</spout:postby><spout:postto>chrismorrell Blog</spout:postto><spout:postdate>3/18/2008 6:56:52 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body> This weaves some complex emotional themes well, i thought. Cast is superb...Juliette Binoche is extraordinary, Jude Law just has to be there ...Robin wright Penn looks like Julie Christie...the likes of Martin Freeman and Ray Winstone make this reassuringly humanistic..Maybe overreaches itself,but the story is expertly told...</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: Anthony Minghella Dies of Brain Hemmorhage</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/blogs/karina/archive/2008/3/18/26349.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/s263486.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/19702/default.aspx'>Karina</a><br/>
<strong>Post To:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/blogs/karina/default.aspx'>Karina on SpoutBlog</a><br/>
<strong>Post Date:</strong> 3/18/2008 12:01:20 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> 


Variety’s story on the death of Anthony Minghella has the first details on cause of death, and sadly, it appears that it was unforeseen. The filmmaker apparently “suffered a brain hemorrhage at 5 a.m. Tuesday morning at Charing Cross Hospital in London, where he had undergone a routine operation on his neck.”
Spout interviewed Minghella when his last released film, Breaking and Entering, had its U.S. premiere at the 2006 Denver Film Festival.  You can watch that interview above. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » karina<br/>
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Variety’s story on the death of Anthony Minghella has the first details on cause of death, and sadly, it appears that it was unforeseen. The filmmaker apparently “suffered a brain hemorrhage at 5 a.m. Tuesday morning at Charing Cross Hospital in London, where he had undergone a routine operation on his neck.”
Spout interviewed Minghella when his last released film, Breaking and Entering, had its U.S. premiere at the 2006 Denver Film Festival.  You can watch that interview above. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » karina</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: Anthony Minghella Dies of Brain Hemmorhage</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/3/18/26348.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/s263486.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 3/18/2008 12:00:51 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> 


Variety’s story on the death of Anthony Minghella has the first details on cause of death, and sadly, it appears that it was unforeseen. The filmmaker apparently “suffered a brain hemorrhage at 5 a.m. Tuesday morning at Charing Cross Hospital in London, where he had undergone a routine operation on his neck.”
Spout interviewed Minghella when his last released film, Breaking and Entering, had its U.S. premiere at the 2006 Denver Film Festival.  You can watch that interview above. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog<br/>
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Variety’s story on the death of Anthony Minghella has the first details on cause of death, and sadly, it appears that it was unforeseen. The filmmaker apparently “suffered a brain hemorrhage at 5 a.m. Tuesday morning at Charing Cross Hospital in London, where he had undergone a routine operation on his neck.”
Spout interviewed Minghella when his last released film, Breaking and Entering, had its U.S. premiere at the 2006 Denver Film Festival.  You can watch that interview above. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: Binoche makes this Bearable!</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/blogs/dj4our/archive/2007/6/22/11650.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/s263486.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
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<strong>Post Date:</strong> 6/22/2007 12:07:11 AM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> BREAKING AND ENTERING **1/2R for sexuality and language.2 hrs.written by: Anthony Minghellaproduced by: Timothy Bricknell, Anthony Minghella, &amp; Sydney Pollackdirected by: Anthony MinghellaWith his latest release, writer &amp; director Anthony Minghella has brought to the screen his first original screenplay in 15 years Here&#39;s a film that&#39;s good to view on a stormy winter or spring weekend afternoon. It&#39;s a quiet, cold and somber film about people who are stuck in the lives they inhabit and the violations they endure to keep their lives intact. That tone isn&#39;t foreign for Minghella who also directed two Oscar-winners, &quot;The English Patient&quot; and &quot;Cold Mountain.&quot; Both if those films, were epic in scope yet had the same tone in characterization of loneliness, longing, and regret that this film does. It would appear that &quot;Breaking and Entering&quot; is a return to that style; it&#39;s somber and well acted and full of interesting possibilities but overall....uncompelling.Will Francis (Jude Law) is a young landscape architect living a cold, routine-based life with his Swedish girlfriend, Liv (Robin Wright Penn) and her behaviorally challenged, possibly autistic, daughter Bea (Popy Rogers) in London. His state-of-the-art office in the Kings Cross area has recently been burglarized. After their business, Green Effect,  is robbed a second time, Will and his business partner Sandy (Martin Freeman, &quot;Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy&quot;) perform a late-night stakeout of the place and wind up accomplishing a coupla things. First, they meet a Russian hooker (Vera Farmiga, &quot;The Departed&quot;) who patrols the neighborhood nightly as she &quot;breaks and enters&quot; their car as they sit in it. Second, Will finds catches a Bosnian teen named traceur Miro (Rafi Gavron, HBO&#39;s &quot;Rome&quot;) attempting to break in. Will attempts to follow him which leads him 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. Minghella&#39;s story brings all of these characters together in various ways. Some of which meander down a rather unbelievable outcome and some seem incredible (as in, not credible) as in the film&#39;s conclusion, which stretches the truth and the law. There comes a point where I do not believe these characters would do these such things. I&#39;m starting to almost grow tired of multiple characters interconnecting somehow. I already know that people crash into each other and I also know that there&#39;s often breaking and entering going on in people&#39;s lives whether they realize it or not. They don&#39;t have to cross paths in order for their lives or the overall story to resonate with me. There&#39;s a point in these kinds of stories where you are really interested to find out what these characters are all about. There is also a point where I just don&#39;t care that much. Unfortunately, that last point lasts for most of the film. Law&#39;s tidy politeness, Wright Penn&#39;s sadness, and Binoche&#39;s vulnerability come through clearly....they are all talented actors....yet the whole thing is so dour and emotionally one-note, that it&#39;s difficult to really like. Instead of liking the film, I guess I moreso appreciated it. It took me to Kings Cross, a part of London I don&#39;t recall seeing on film before. It was good to see Ray Winstone as a decent guy for a change. He plays a detective investigating the burglaries and in one scene he has a talk Miro in a park. He makes it obvious that he knows Miro is one of the thieves and instead of busting him he tried to help the teen realize that he needs to make better choices with his life. It&#39;s a nice change from the rough gangster type characters he usually plays in movies like &quot;The Departed&quot;, &quot;The Proposition&quot; and &quot;Sexy Beast.&quot; He also played a detestable character in Minghella&#39;s &quot;Cold Mountain.&quot;   What will remain most memorable to me about this film will be Binoche&#39;s great performance. Widowed by the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Binoche&#39;s Amira will do whatever she can to protect the life of her troubled son and in the process of doing so she finds an intimacy that had long been absent in her life.  It must have been good for Binoche to get back together with the director who helped her win an Oscar for Supporting Actress back in 1997. She not only gives some great depth and emotion to Amira but also masters a Bosnian accent. If you&#39;ve never seen her in director Krzysztof Kieslowski&#39;s&quot;color&quot; trilogy, go check it out. She&#39;s simply amazing and I try to take note of a film whenever I see she&#39;s in it. So, if you&#39;re a fan of her work, it&#39;s worth waiting for DVD to catch this one.It&#39;s good to see Minghella work on smaller character-study films. He makes a good looking film here and I&#39;m not just talking the actors. His scene compositions are well done aesthetically and he knows how long to let the camera linger on a scene. So far, the only Minghella film that I still like is &quot;The Talented Mr. Ripley&quot; which also starred Jude Law. It would appear Law is to Minghella what DiCaprio is to Scorcese.  I didn&#39;t care for his epic romance/war films all that much. Some of the acting stood out but overall I didn&#39;t really care for the characters all that much. There&#39;s some of that in this film, but at least I can understand the feelings of  denial and temptation. Yeah, the film&#39;s personality is lost to a bit of nonsense that&#39;s meant to tie up loose ends where it feels like someone&#39;s simply pulled the plug on the pace and good sense. Even if Minghella can&#39;t find a suitable exit, he&#39;s created an fairly satisfying journey that rewards the curious viewer searching for depth to their drama, and more delicate touches to their acting. It&#39;s a film that is leisurely, confining, and unbearable in almost every moment, sneaking in undercover of a straight-up character piece, one that develops into real examples of fallible people trying to come to terms with their frailty. <br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2007 04:07:11 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>dj4our</spout:postby><spout:postto>dj4our Blog</spout:postto><spout:postdate>6/22/2007 12:07:11 AM</spout:postdate><spout:body>BREAKING AND ENTERING **1/2R for sexuality and language.2 hrs.written by: Anthony Minghellaproduced by: Timothy Bricknell, Anthony Minghella, &amp;amp; Sydney Pollackdirected by: Anthony MinghellaWith his latest release, writer &amp;amp; director Anthony Minghella has brought to the screen his first original screenplay in 15 years Here&amp;#39;s a film that&amp;#39;s good to view on a stormy winter or spring weekend afternoon. It&amp;#39;s a quiet, cold and somber film about people who are stuck in the lives they inhabit and the violations they endure to keep their lives intact. That tone isn&amp;#39;t foreign for Minghella who also directed two Oscar-winners, &amp;quot;The English Patient&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Cold Mountain.&amp;quot; Both if those films, were epic in scope yet had the same tone in characterization of loneliness, longing, and regret that this film does. It would appear that &amp;quot;Breaking and Entering&amp;quot; is a return to that style; it&amp;#39;s somber and well acted and full of interesting possibilities but overall....uncompelling.Will Francis (Jude Law) is a young landscape architect living a cold, routine-based life with his Swedish girlfriend, Liv (Robin Wright Penn) and her behaviorally challenged, possibly autistic, daughter Bea (Popy Rogers) in London. His state-of-the-art office in the Kings Cross area has recently been burglarized. After their business, Green Effect,  is robbed a second time, Will and his business partner Sandy (Martin Freeman, &amp;quot;Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy&amp;quot;) perform a late-night stakeout of the place and wind up accomplishing a coupla things. First, they meet a Russian hooker (Vera Farmiga, &amp;quot;The Departed&amp;quot;) who patrols the neighborhood nightly as she &amp;quot;breaks and enters&amp;quot; their car as they sit in it. Second, Will finds catches a Bosnian teen named traceur Miro (Rafi Gavron, HBO&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;Rome&amp;quot;) attempting to break in. Will attempts to follow him which leads him 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. Minghella&amp;#39;s story brings all of these characters together in various ways. Some of which meander down a rather unbelievable outcome and some seem incredible (as in, not credible) as in the film&amp;#39;s conclusion, which stretches the truth and the law. There comes a point where I do not believe these characters would do these such things. I&amp;#39;m starting to almost grow tired of multiple characters interconnecting somehow. I already know that people crash into each other and I also know that there&amp;#39;s often breaking and entering going on in people&amp;#39;s lives whether they realize it or not. They don&amp;#39;t have to cross paths in order for their lives or the overall story to resonate with me. There&amp;#39;s a point in these kinds of stories where you are really interested to find out what these characters are all about. There is also a point where I just don&amp;#39;t care that much. Unfortunately, that last point lasts for most of the film. Law&amp;#39;s tidy politeness, Wright Penn&amp;#39;s sadness, and Binoche&amp;#39;s vulnerability come through clearly....they are all talented actors....yet the whole thing is so dour and emotionally one-note, that it&amp;#39;s difficult to really like. Instead of liking the film, I guess I moreso appreciated it. It took me to Kings Cross, a part of London I don&amp;#39;t recall seeing on film before. It was good to see Ray Winstone as a decent guy for a change. He plays a detective investigating the burglaries and in one scene he has a talk Miro in a park. He makes it obvious that he knows Miro is one of the thieves and instead of busting him he tried to help the teen realize that he needs to make better choices with his life. It&amp;#39;s a nice change from the rough gangster type characters he usually plays in movies like &amp;quot;The Departed&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;The Proposition&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Sexy Beast.&amp;quot; He also played a detestable character in Minghella&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;Cold Mountain.&amp;quot;   What will remain most memorable to me about this film will be Binoche&amp;#39;s great performance. Widowed by the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Binoche&amp;#39;s Amira will do whatever she can to protect the life of her troubled son and in the process of doing so she finds an intimacy that had long been absent in her life.  It must have been good for Binoche to get back together with the director who helped her win an Oscar for Supporting Actress back in 1997. She not only gives some great depth and emotion to Amira but also masters a Bosnian accent. If you&amp;#39;ve never seen her in director Krzysztof Kieslowski&amp;#39;s&amp;quot;color&amp;quot; trilogy, go check it out. She&amp;#39;s simply amazing and I try to take note of a film whenever I see she&amp;#39;s in it. So, if you&amp;#39;re a fan of her work, it&amp;#39;s worth waiting for DVD to catch this one.It&amp;#39;s good to see Minghella work on smaller character-study films. He makes a good looking film here and I&amp;#39;m not just talking the actors. His scene compositions are well done aesthetically and he knows how long to let the camera linger on a scene. So far, the only Minghella film that I still like is &amp;quot;The Talented Mr. Ripley&amp;quot; which also starred Jude Law. It would appear Law is to Minghella what DiCaprio is to Scorcese.  I didn&amp;#39;t care for his epic romance/war films all that much. Some of the acting stood out but overall I didn&amp;#39;t really care for the characters all that much. There&amp;#39;s some of that in this film, but at least I can understand the feelings of  denial and temptation. Yeah, the film&amp;#39;s personality is lost to a bit of nonsense that&amp;#39;s meant to tie up loose ends where it feels like someone&amp;#39;s simply pulled the plug on the pace and good sense. Even if Minghella can&amp;#39;t find a suitable exit, he&amp;#39;s created an fairly satisfying journey that rewards the curious viewer searching for depth to their drama, and more delicate touches to their acting. It&amp;#39;s a film that is leisurely, confining, and unbearable in almost every moment, sneaking in undercover of a straight-up character piece, one that develops into real examples of fallible people trying to come to terms with their frailty. </spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: Re: Favorites</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/groups/British_Invasion/Re_Favorites/188/7238/1/ShowPost.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/s263486.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/5180/default.aspx'>wonga</a><br/>
<strong>Post To:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/groups/British_Invasion/188/discussions.aspx'>British Invasion</a><br/>
<strong>Post Date:</strong> 4/18/2007 11:25:58 AM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> i saw Breaking And Entering this week and i have to add it to my favorites list. like lots of British movies it&#39;s set in London but it&#39;s current and shows more of the cross-cultural thing, not just the "upper crust." i was surprised that it got such a low score on Rotten Tomatoes as i really liked it but it might just be that i was blinded by Jude Law (as usual). has anyone else seen it?<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:25:58 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>wonga</spout:postby><spout:postto>British Invasion</spout:postto><spout:postdate>4/18/2007 11:25:58 AM</spout:postdate><spout:body>i saw Breaking And Entering this week and i have to add it to my favorites list. like lots of British movies it&amp;#39;s set in London but it&amp;#39;s current and shows more of the cross-cultural thing, not just the "upper crust." i was surprised that it got such a low score on Rotten Tomatoes as i really liked it but it might just be that i was blinded by Jude Law (as usual). has anyone else seen it?</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: Breaking and Entering: Recommended</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/blogs/billhr/archive/2006/11/10/3651.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/s263486.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/2108/default.aspx'>billhr</a><br/>
<strong>Post To:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/blogs/billhr/default.aspx'>Movies on appliedthinking</a><br/>
<strong>Post Date:</strong> 11/10/2006 5:42:00 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> I had the good fortune of seeing the American premier of Breaking and Entering opening night at the Starz Denver Film Festival. This film is Anthony Minghella's 6th and in the company of titles like Truly Madly Deeply, The English Patient and The Talented Mr. Ripley.It took me almost 24 hours to process this film in my head. Although the surface story seems fairly straightforward (issues of class, immigration, parent/child and husband/wife relationships), Mr. Minghella does not shy away from telling it both circuitously and subtly...just like real life unfolding. To that extent, the performances by Jude Law, Robin Wright Penn and Juliette Binoche are authentic and honest...especially Juliette. Her character doesn't win you over immediately. She pulls you in...slowly. Her character's relationship with her son was amazing to watch (as I have seen the same intensity between my own wife and son).The final analysis? This was simply a beautiful film that sticks with you.<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2006 22:42:00 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>billhr</spout:postby><spout:postto>Movies on appliedthinking</spout:postto><spout:postdate>11/10/2006 5:42:00 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>I had the good fortune of seeing the American premier of Breaking and Entering opening night at the Starz Denver Film Festival. This film is Anthony Minghella's 6th and in the company of titles like Truly Madly Deeply, The English Patient and The Talented Mr. Ripley.It took me almost 24 hours to process this film in my head. Although the surface story seems fairly straightforward (issues of class, immigration, parent/child and husband/wife relationships), Mr. Minghella does not shy away from telling it both circuitously and subtly...just like real life unfolding. To that extent, the performances by Jude Law, Robin Wright Penn and Juliette Binoche are authentic and honest...especially Juliette. Her character doesn't win you over immediately. She pulls you in...slowly. Her character's relationship with her son was amazing to watch (as I have seen the same intensity between my own wife and son).The final analysis? This was simply a beautiful film that sticks with you.</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: Recap - Day 1</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/groups/Starz_Denver_Film_Festival/Recap_Day_1/191/3635/1/ShowPost.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/s263486.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/2115/default.aspx'>dave</a><br/>
<strong>Post To:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/groups/Starz_Denver_Film_Festival/191/discussions.aspx'>Starz Denver Film Festival</a><br/>
<strong>Post Date:</strong> 11/10/2006 4:12:54 AM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> First day done and many podcasts in the can. We have interviews with Ron Henderson, Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the festival, Robert B. Clasen, Chairman and CEO of Starz, Anthony Minghella, Writer and Director of the Opening Night film Breaking and Entering and many more. We have both audio and video so look for those soon. Films dont start till 6pm tomorrow so we will be busy interviewing filmmakers from 1-4 as well as some more video if we can fit it in. If you have a favorite actor, director that you think we must talk with, let us know. Also let us know what you questions you would like us to ask.<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2006 09:12:54 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>dave</spout:postby><spout:postto>Starz Denver Film Festival</spout:postto><spout:postdate>11/10/2006 4:12:54 AM</spout:postdate><spout:body>First day done and many podcasts in the can. We have interviews with Ron Henderson, Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the festival, Robert B. Clasen, Chairman and CEO of Starz, Anthony Minghella, Writer and Director of the Opening Night film Breaking and Entering and many more. We have both audio and video so look for those soon. Films dont start till 6pm tomorrow so we will be busy interviewing filmmakers from 1-4 as well as some more video if we can fit it in. If you have a favorite actor, director that you think we must talk with, let us know. Also let us know what you questions you would like us to ask.</spout:body></item>
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