
Bea causes chaos in the household and also requires a lot of attention. Will's home life is strained - he lives with his Swedish girlfriend, Liv, and her autistic daughter, Bea. On the day they open their office, they're robbed and then they're robbed again. The problem is that the office is in King's Cross, a bad neighborhood. Jude Law is Will, an architect who has a brand new office with his partner Sandy (Martin Freeman). I found it an honest and moving film about complex people with complex emotional - and very real - lives. Since this film is about people and not adventure or war, I'll say up front that this film moved slowly. The late Anthony Minghella wrote and directed "Breaking and Entering," a 2006 film starring Jude Law, Robin Wright Penn,and Juliette Binoche. Reviewed by blanche-2 8 / 10 Love, in all its forms The characters journeys come to a conclusion which fits the theme of redemption and moving beyond the past. And that is also the case of Robin Wright Penn's character and her daughter from Sweden. The shots of the Camden Locks, and the trees that dot the water, made the story come alive with watching Law and Binoche, and the son, Miro, each with their own problems to solve.īREAKING AND ENTERING is a timely film as it shows the "melting pot" of London with its different races and refugees who have created a city of millions who have arrived in England to escape their past. Remembering the bombing of Kings Cross in 2005, and having lived in that area as a graduate student at London University, the film location was such an interesting match for the darkness of the characters, and their own issues and complexity. When their paths meet through "breaking and entering" their stories collide in a film with solid performances from the cast. Reviewed by screenwriter-14 7 / 10 Another Side of London via Kings CrossīREAKING AND ENTERING takes you inside the council housing of London and the rough edges of Kings Cross with a look at the difference in the relationships of a Bosnian Refugee and her son, in contrast to that of a London Architect and his partner, and her autistic daughter. The stakeout and Amira's vulnerability are attractive alternatives to being at home. At home, Will's relationship with Liv is strained - he feels outside Liv and her daughter Bea's circle. He follows Miro home and returns the next day and meets Miro's mother, Amira. Twice they steal from Will's architectural firm, so Will stakes it out at night. 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. A mother and her daughter, a mother and her son, and a man living with one and attracted to the other.
