Black Balls

Black Balls

Directed by Anders Matthesen, Joakim Höglund

Produced by Universal Pictures, Nimbus Film

200982 min6.6 / 10

A darkly comedic portrait of a man unraveling under the weight of modern life's absurdities, finding sardonic humor in his own collision course.

Alex Klein is a bankrupt real estate executive whose life is on a collision course. Not only do the market and his career look like a Trabant from before the fall of the Berlin Wall, but he has a wife who is thriving in success; a family whose habits are driving him insane; clients with bad taste and too much money. Not to mention 14-year-old baristas who think they know the difference between highland coffee beans, picked by virgins at midnight and the coffee from the local supermarket. So there's a lot getting on his nerves, so much so, that one day, when things become real serious, he can only weather the storm in his own repelling way.

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