I’m not particularly familiar with Danish director Susanne Bier‘s filmography. Scratch that, I’m actually not at all familiar with Bier’s work. Her Oscar-winning film In a Better World is a movie I have heard plenty about but never seen, and the only other film of hers I’ve even heard of is Serena, Bier’s Depression-era drama starring Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper, which will finally be released on demand tomorrow and in U.S. theaters on March 27 after spending eighteen long months in post-production.
But never mind that, for Bier it’s on to the next one, as the second trailer for her latest film A Second Chance has recently debuted online. The project, which stars Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (“Game of Thrones”), Ulrich Thomsen (The Thing), and Maria Bonnevie(I Am David), debuted at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival to mixed reviews, with The Playlist concluding the film contains more than its share of plot twists and clumsy writing but is “an adamant thriller, scrappy pacing and all.” The Hollywood Reporter, however, is less kind, stating at the outset that A Second Chance, “apart from the cast, has precious few redeeming features.”
Written by Anders Thomas Jensen (In a Better World), A Second Chance stars Coster-Waldau as Andreas, a Danish cop who attempts to justify stealing a junkie couple’s neglected infant and adopting it as his own. Andreas, confronted with his own powerlessness, slowly loses his grip on justice, and it suddenly becomes up to the unruly Simon (Thomsen) to restore the balance between right and wrong.
The film doesn’t yet have a stateside release date, but you can check out the new trailer for A Second Chance below.
