"Breaking and Entering" is Anthony Minghella's follow-up to his sophisticated and emotionally vibrant "Cold Mountain" and
"The Talented Mr. Ripley." Those films helped Minghella overcome the reputation he'd gotten from "The English Patient," which was that he was a cold, passionless filmmaker. Unfortunately, "Breaking and Entering" is a return to that style, somber and nicely acted but wholly uncompelling. The plot is actually rife with interesting possibilities. It involves a London architect named Will (Jude Law) whose office is burglarized by a crew of Bosnian thieves who use the gymnastic prowess of one of their younger members to get in through the skylight and shut off the alarm system. The Bosnians haul off the company's expensive new computers, and the nimble youth, a 15-year-old named Miro (Rafi Gavron), begins to feel a connection to Will by seeing the photos he has on his laptop. Miro lives in a crime-ridden sector of London with his mother, Amira (Juliette Binoche), who runs a small tailoring business out of their home. She wants Miro to stay away from his no-good uncle, whom she knows is a career criminal.
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