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Writer/director Anthony Minghella ("Cold Mountain") overemphasizes the power of metaphor in this definitively overwrought drama about an adulterous corporate landscape architect (Jude Law) whose dalliance with a seamstress from Sarajevo brings his troubled marriage to a head.
Robin Wright Penn plays Will's (Law) despondent Scandinavian wife Liv who suffers their privileged London existence due to their daughter Bea's hyperactive behavior that she channels through excessive gymnastics.
Will becomes his own private detective after his posh new offices in London's dicey King's Cross district are repeatedly robbed, but he's more fascinated with the refugee widowed mother (Juliette Binoche) of the teenage burglar that he follows home.
The moral of the movie could be, "expect the slums if you go slumming," yet Minghella seems oblivious to the underlying sexist and racist subtext of his material.
There isn't a likable character to be found in this wrongheaded movie.
Rated R. 116 mins.
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