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Jason has become a superstar footballer but is deeply closeted and married with children. He uses a transactional encounter with a stripper to maintain his public image.
The film’s brilliance lies in its structural simplicity. Spanning a decade in the life of Jason (Russell Tovey), a rising football star, the story is told in three distinct hotel rooms. There are no montages of training or matches; the game happens off-screen, while the real drama unfolds in the intimate, claustrophobic spaces of the bedrooms.
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