Player follows a righteous, self-controlled and rather boring lawyer, who is sent to Nice on a divorce case. As he arrives, everything starts go wrong – he is cheated out of $2 million company money and the future looks bleak, when he meets his old buddy, a gambler of easy virtue.
Acting
Rasmus Bjerg's tightly-wound lawyer slowly unraveling is genuinely watchable
Production
Nice locations doing heavy lifting to justify the 79-minute runtime
Director
Tomas Villum Jensen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This is peak 'Danish middle-aged male crisis' cinema — a surprisingly robust subgenre that gave us Klown and Men & Chicken.
Casper Christensen co-wrote this with director Tomas Villum Jensen after their long collaboration on Danish television comedy.
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