I’ve certainly enjoyed the more recent years of Colin Farrell’s career with work which gets stronger, deeper and more varied all of the time – and in Ballad of a Small Player, directed by Edward Berger (All Quiet On The Western Front, Conclave), we experience one epic trailer!

Starring Farrell as Lord Doyle, a man laying low in Macau – spending his days and nights on the casino floors, drinking heavily and gambling what little money he has left. 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…

But that’s not all, as Cynthia Blithe (Tilda Swinton) – a private investigator is also on his tailer, ready to confront Doyle with what he is running from…

Written by Rowan Joffe, the film also stars Deanie Ip, and Alex Jennings, and it’s based on the novel of the same name by Lawrence Osborne:

Ballad of a Small Player comes to select cinema from 17 October, and then to Netflix on 29 October