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fromInverse
4 days ago
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'The Ballad Of A Small Player' Is Secretly A Ghost Story

An over-the-top, hyper-stylized gambling drama starring Colin Farrell as a self-destructive expatriate who spirals into supernatural consequences.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago
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Ballad of a Small Player review Colin Farrell seeks redemption in Edward Berger's high-stakes gambling yarn

A gambling addict in Macau faces a metaphysical choice between redemption and self-annihilation after a calamitous encounter with a mysterious moneylender.
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fromVulture
3 days ago

Maybe the Conclave Guy Is Actually Bad at Making Movies?

A Western gambler in Macau indulges in orientalist decadence and cultural performance, portrayed as neon-lit exoticism without meaningful subversion of the premise.
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

It's like fencing with a close friend. Terrifying in a lovely way': Colin Farrell and Tilda Swinton on taking a gamble with their new drama

On a humid morning in Macau, a blue-and-orange phoenix embellished with more than 60,000 flowers is hatching from an enormous pink Faberge egg in the lobby of the Wynn Palace hotel. The haughty bird basks in the attention of onlookers as it rotates on a diamond-encrusted perch to the triumphant sound of clarions, before returning to its shell. Chancing upon this spectacle, you think to yourself, How lucky that I was passing at that precise moment!
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