Ballad of a Small Player is the new Netflix movie you need to stream this week – but star Colin Farrell warns it's ‘sensory overload’

Wondering what to stream on Netflix this week? Look no further than Ballad of a Small Player, coming to the small screen on October 29.

Starring Colin Farrell, Fala Chen and Tilda Swinton in its lead roles, and directed by Conclave and All Quiet on the Western Front director Edward Berger, the new movie transports us to Macau on the south coast of China.

There, we find Lord Doyle (Farrell), a man with a gambling addiction so bad that it's driven him to the brink of losing everything after borrowing money wherever he can to maintain the illusion of being a Lord (spoiler: he's not). When investigator Cynthia Blithe (Swinton) confronts Doyle about stealing nearly £1 million from an elderly woman, he goes on the run.