anthony minghella and the talented english director and write the screen play for break and enter . a the title suggest and this be a story about alienation and exile and the clash of culture and among other thing . mr. minghella whose death leave a tremendous gap in the world cinema and be a man whose work will be sadly miss by discern fan . he be and above all and a man of impeccable taste and it show throughout his entire career . the story center around an architect and will and who decide to go to an unsavory part of town to locate his office . the area be crime infect . soon criminal invade the premise to steal thing that can easily be dispose and will fetch a good return to the criminal . will be the lover of liv and although it appear they have a nice thing go and we get an impression that all be not well between them . when will computer be steal and he get upset . he decide to keep surveillance on the place until he watch a young man break into his office . will be determine to track him down and succeed in locate the public housing project in which he live . to his amazement and he discover the young thief mother be a seamstress and amira and and decides to go to her with the feeble excuse he want some suit alter . what will doesn not imagine be to what extent he will become attached to the beautiful woman . she be a refugee from bosnia who live by take private job in order to support herself and the son and who she doesn not suspect of be capable of any wrong do . will and amira get into an affair that big than both of them . he get something big than what he bargain for and thus put in peril his own relationship with liv . when all it say and do and will end up apologize to amira and to liv . the end it a cop out and because will enter into his affair with open eye . he end up apologize to everyone . beg forgiveness he feel exonerate and perhaps and for his action and what he do to both amira and liv . one wish the film would have have a different resolution and but one can see why minghella decide to go ahead with his instinct . the movie have an excellent cast . it probably one of the best thing jude law have do in recent memory . robin wright penn make a great liv . juliette binoche be also effective a amira . it sad in a way to realize this be mr. minghella last work when he have so much to give u .