“It’s not too late for you,” Dao Ming tells Lord Doyle. These words keep echoing in his mind long after she’s gone. They linger like a whisper in the smoky casino air, a reminder that redemption is still possible. But, for a man like Doyle, who has gambled away his fortune, his name and his very sense of self, believing that is the hardest bet of all.

Welcome to ‘Ballad of a Small Player’, directed by Edward Berger, a haunting tale of greed, guilt and ghosts. It’s a story about a man who runs so far from his past that he ends up circling right back to it.

Colin Farrell plays Lord Doyle, a disgraced English banker named Reilly who has fled to Macau after embezzling money from his wealthy clients. Now living under a false name, he hides in five-star hotels and drifts through the city’s gli

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