Jude Law was accompanied by his co-star Robin Wright Penn

Law plays a landscape architect who re-evaluates his life after he meets the burglar of his London office.

"It's really a cinematic and very beautiful city," said Law about the city, where he also lives.

The film from director Anthony Minghella also stars Martin Freeman, Robin Wright Penn and Juliette Binoche.

Friday's event was part of the London Film Festival.

Law said his movie was a refreshing story about real people.

"I'm like the next person, I like going to films to escape and to be shown the perfect life and the perfect people," he said.

"This is a film which is about real people, in which the good aren't just good, they're good and bad.

"It's about embracing that and not feeling like you are living a life short of the norm because you haven't got the perfect house and the perfect life."

Breaking and Entering is one of two Law films to be released this autumn. The other is US political drama All The King's Men, in which he appears alongside Kate Winslet and Sean Penn.

The day before his latest premiere, the London house of Law's ex-wife Sadie Frost was burgled while she and her children were asleep.

Thieves are thought to have entered Frost's house in Primrose Hill between midnight and 0800 BST on Thursday.

They made off with Frost's Range Rover which was parked outside after taking the keys from the house.