From Good Chaos, Nine Hours, and Stigma Films, Ballad of a Small Player is the eagerly awaited follow-up for Oscar-nominated writer/director Edward Berger, following his back-to-back awards season-contending films, 2022’s Netflix original All Quiet on the Western Front & last year’s Best Adapted Screenplay winner Conclave. With expectations of being back in the awards conversation again this year, the film made its debut at two of the most prestigious film festivals, Telluride & Toronto International, ahead of its extremely limited theatrical release in the U.S., U.K., & Ireland.

Based on the 2014 novel of the same name by Lawrence Osborne , the story centers on Lord Doyle (Colin Farrell), a high-stakes gambler and con man, who’s hiding out in Macau after stealing money from an

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