Breaking and Entering is the new film by Anthony Minghella. I watched it on the plane last night on the way home and it completely grabbed me and reduced me to tears that took ages to stop. It’s Juliette Binoche’s acting that does it for me. I think she is SUCH an amazing actor. There are two scenes that really, really moved me and they both involved her. One is where she begs the Jude Law character for help. Begs desperately, hysterically. And the other is a very quiet scene towards the end where in response to his courageous act of kindness she looks at him, with an intensity that transfixes you, and then a tear appears from the corner of her right eye and slides down the side of her face. Oh, that did it! I started right there and didn’t stop, right through the credits which roll to the soundtrack of a beautiful piece by Sigur Ros that seems to hold you in that intensity of emotion, holds you steady, till you think this feeling, this upset, can’t go on any longer then it increases. Heart-rending.
Here’s the trailer
Heroes Not Zombies 
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