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Award-winning Irish film A Want in Her opens in October
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Colin Farrell risks it all in Ballad of a Small Player
The trailer for the Colin Farrell-starring psychological thriller Ballad of a Small Player has been released ahead of the film's arrival in cinemas and on Netflix in October. Ballad of a Small Player will be released in Irish cinemas on Friday 17 October and on Netflix on Wednesday 29 October. The film teams Farrell with Edward Berger, the director of the Oscar-winning Conclave and All Quiet on the Western Front. "Lord Doyle (Colin Farrell) is laying low in Macau - spending his days and nights on the casino floors, drinking heavily and gambling what little money he has left," reads the synopsis. "Struggling to keep up with his fast-rising debts, he is offered a lifeline by the mysterious Dao Ming (Fala Chen), a casino employee with secrets of her own. "However, in hot pursuit is Cynthia Blithe (Tilda Swinton) - a private investigator ready to confront Doyle with what he is running from. "As Doyle tries to climb to salvation, the confines of reality start to close in." Ballad of a Small Player is based on the Lawrence Osborne book The Ballad of a Small Player and is adapted for the screen by Rowan Joffe (Tin Star, 28 Weeks Later). The film will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in September.
