We haven’t seen a film with this feel in a longtime, that old world sophisticated thriller of the 60s and 70s. After watching the film, we couldn’t stop talking about the look and the feel of it. The film is not perfect but it is a seductive, film-noir that’s thrilling to watch.
The Burnt Orange Heresy
Our colleague Hollis Tyde sat in on a roundtable with Italian director Giuseppe Capotondi and actor Claes Bang. You can listen in by clicking on the audio box.
Capotondi and writer Scott Smith, who based the film off the 1971 novel by Charles Willeford, brought together an interesting, international cast including Danish actor Claes Bang (The Square) and Australian actor Elizabeth Debicki (Widows), as the lovers. English rocker/actor Mick Jagger is the art collector, and the fabulous Canadian actor Donald Sutherland is the artist.
L-r: Claes Bang, Elizabeth Debicki and Mick Jagger
Synopsis: Charming and ambitious art critic, James Figueras (Bang), has fallen from grace. He spends his days in Milan lecturing witless tourists about art history. His only glimmer of hope is a new- found love interest, the enigmatic American, Berenice Hollis (Debicki). An opportunity strikes when he is contacted by wealthy art dealer Joseph Cassidy (Jagger) who summons James to his villa on Lake Como and asks him to steal a painting from the legendary reclusive artist, Jerome Debney (Sutherland). Soon, James’ greed and ambition get the better of him, and he finds himself caught in a web of his own making.
The Burnt Orange Heresy is in theaters in Los Angeles and New York.
