The film (Danish, with English sub-titles), received the Signis Award at the San Sebastian Festival 2014, and was part of the line-up in the 2015 European Film Festival, screened at Cinema Nouveau during May.
How far would decent human beings be willing to go, when tragedy blurs the line between just and unjust? With "A Second Chance", Susanne Bier and writer Anders Thomas Jensen have crafted a moving drama about how easily we lose our grasp on justice, when confronted with the unthinkable, and life as we know it is hanging by a thread.
A Second Chance features Coster-Waldau as a detective, Andreas, who has settled down with his wife (Maria Bonnevie) and baby son. His friend and colleague, Simon (Ulrich Thomsen), recently divorced, spends most of his waking hours getting drunk. But all that changes when they are called out to a domestic dispute between a junkie couple, Tristan (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) and Sanne (May Andersen), caught in a vicious cycle of violence and drugs.
When Andreas finds their infant in a closet, he slowly loses his grip on justice, and Simon has to restore his balance between right and wrong.
View the trailer for A Second Chance here.
A Second Chance releases at Cinema Nouveau theatres in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban and Cape Town on Friday, 28 August. The running time of the film is 1hr 44mins, and it carries a 16LVD classification.
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