2006 · drama · romance · heist
Breaking and Entering
Directed by Anthony Minghella2h 9m2006
Set in a blighted, inner-city neighbourhood of London, Breaking and Entering examines an affair which unfolds between a successful British landscape architect and Amira, a Bosnian woman – the mother of a troubled teen son – who was widowed by the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Our read: Breaking and Entering (2006) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · romance · heist entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- measured
- intimate
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