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Anthony Minghella
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Oscar-winning filmmaker and playwright Anthony Minghella and world-renowned tenor Ben Heppner have been enlisted to help select the next winner of the Glenn Gould Prize. [[ This is a content summary only.
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"Breaking and Entering" stars Jude Law as Will Francis, a landscape architect whose offices, like Minghella's, are being renovated by day and burglarized by night. Juliette Binoche plays Amira, a Bosnian refugee whose 15-year-old son, Miro (Rafi Gavron), is one of the thieves; Robin Wright Penn plays Liv, Will's Swedish-American wife, who hides her powerful emotions under a chilly, remote surface.
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Made famous for his adaptations and beautiful screenplays Minghella is a director of depth and has the ability to pull you into his films. Whilst some find his work tedious and dull – others are completely swept away by the majesty of some of his projects.
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Minghella is married to Hong Kong-born choreographer Carolyn Choa. His brother, Dominic, is ... a successful scriptwriter, and his son, Max, is an actor. His sister Edana is currently involved in a Jazz event on the Isle of Wight, and his nephew Dante is one of the participants in Channel 4's Child Genius series.
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Minghella: You know, somebody once said, asked a director what was important in a movie, and they said, "It's simple. It's 50% the screenplay, 50% the casting, 50% the cinematography, 50% the locations, 50% the production design, 50--" You know, everything has to be right.
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"Michael comes from this tradition, both in theater and in opera, of restraint— of taking one or two ideas and really working them," Minghella notes. Against this background of elegant restraint, Minghella envisioned a bold splash of color and vibrancy. So he turned to Han Feng, the Shanghai-born fashion designer and a friend of Minghella and Choa, who agreed to make her costume-designing debut with the production.
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