Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.

See what’s playing
A Second Chance
  • Try 7 Days Free
  • Now Showing
  • MUBI GO
  • Gift MUBI
  • Film Database
  • Notebook
  • Notebook Magazine
  • MUBI Editions
  • SHOP
  • About
  • Ways to Watch
  • Students
  • Jobs
  • Terms & Privacy
6.7
/10
352 Ratings

A SECOND CHANCE

En chance til

Directed by Susanne Bier
Denmark, Sweden, 2014
Drama
  • 102102 minutes

Synopsis

Police detectives and best friends Andreas and Simon are called out to a domestic dispute between a couple caught in a vicious cycle of violence and drugs. When Andreas finds their infant in a closet, he slowly loses his grip on justice, leaving Simon to restore the balance between right and wrong.

Synopsis

Police detectives and best friends Andreas and Simon are called out to a domestic dispute between a couple caught in a vicious cycle of violence and drugs. When Andreas finds their infant in a closet, he slowly loses his grip on justice, leaving Simon to restore the balance between right and wrong.

Our take

Danish director Susanne Bier (In A Better World) has established herself as a masterful director of chilling dramas. In A Second Chance, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau plays a desperate father who is pushed to explore the limits of his own morals in the face of a tragic situation.