The title does more than tell the tale of a young boy who breaks into an architect (Jude Law’s) workplace and rob him. The young thief also changes things – in a way, breaking into Law’s life and in some ways, leaving things he didn’t take, when Law is suddenly forced to reevaluate his own life. His ten year relationship with Robin Wright Penn is strained mainly because of her twelve year old autistic daughter. After a second robbery, Law takes it upon himself to camp outside his office during nighttime hours in hopes of finding this criminal. But what he finds is a friendship with some colorful characters including Juliette Binoche, the mother of the very young boy who’s robbed him. Director Anthony Minghella who discovered Jude Law in “The Talented Mister Ripley” and then “Cold Mountain” has done it again, only this time he’s right on the money, delivering a film that touches on fidelity, infidelity, and the emotions that break and enter the heart in similar ways that the movie “Unfaithful’ got in over its head a few years ago. And Law’s performance is his best to date – genuine and not his usual cad-self, making him Oscar worthy. Four Tiaras
