Breaking and Entering
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rmToday I saw an advance preview of Breaking and Entering (It will be released limited in December, with national release in January). It was very well done certainly, and its themes were Minghella's usual in the sense that he uses landscape to frame stories about adult (in)fidelity. The film left me in an odd place, however, and I will be curious to see how others of you react when and if you do go see it for I cannot figure out if I found the film and its steadfastly enduring women, who beg and dissolve and persist, distasteful on some level because I have so removed myself from the world of these types of quandries or because something in me has merely gotten broken along the way. Maybe that's a question for a different film -- what's the difference between freedom and damage.
Jude Law plays cowards like no one else and as pretty as he was young, now that he's starting to grow out of his angelic looks a bit, it's becoming clear that he's going to be a devastatingly attractive older man.
The film is very deft and moving about Bosnia without focusing on it at all.
The young actors in the film are amazing. As are several essentially irrelevant supporting performers (there's some really funny stuff involving a whore that manages to be consistently surprising).
There's a gluten-free/autism scene!
Imperfect sexy bodies but lots of weird blurring in sex scenes and I found itimpossible to ascertain if this was a stylistic or rating related choice.
Some of the dialogue is a bit heavy-handed and unfortunately lacks the poetry that made up for that in The English Patient.
I was wearing a dupatta today and kept wanting to pull it over my head. The film made me angry, and sad, but I wanted to be angry and sad in private. I also wanted it to be a better film for eliciting such feelings. A couple hours later though, it's faded to nothing. I am unsure whether to recommend it or not.
Jude Law plays cowards like no one else and as pretty as he was young, now that he's starting to grow out of his angelic looks a bit, it's becoming clear that he's going to be a devastatingly attractive older man.
The film is very deft and moving about Bosnia without focusing on it at all.
The young actors in the film are amazing. As are several essentially irrelevant supporting performers (there's some really funny stuff involving a whore that manages to be consistently surprising).
There's a gluten-free/autism scene!
Imperfect sexy bodies but lots of weird blurring in sex scenes and I found itimpossible to ascertain if this was a stylistic or rating related choice.
Some of the dialogue is a bit heavy-handed and unfortunately lacks the poetry that made up for that in The English Patient.
I was wearing a dupatta today and kept wanting to pull it over my head. The film made me angry, and sad, but I wanted to be angry and sad in private. I also wanted it to be a better film for eliciting such feelings. A couple hours later though, it's faded to nothing. I am unsure whether to recommend it or not.
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