Presents THE BURNT ORANGE HERESY A film by Giuseppe Capotondi 98 mins, UK/Italy, 2020 Language: English Distribution Publicity Mongrel Media Inc Bonne Smith 217 – 136 Geary Ave Star PR Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M6H 4H1 Tel: 416-488-4436 Tel: 416-516-9775 Fax: 416-516-0651 Twitter: @starpr2 E-mail:
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[email protected] www.mongrelmedia.com SHORT SYNOPSIS Charming and ambitious art critic, James Figueras (Claes 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 (Elizabeth Debicki). An opportunity strikes when he is contacted by wealthy art dealer Joseph Cassidy (Mick Jagger) who summons James to his villa on Lake Como and asks him to steal a painting from the legendary reclusive artist, Jerome Debney (Donald Sutherland). Soon, James’ greed and ambition get the better of him, and he finds himself caught in a web of his own making. LONG SYNOPSIS This seductive, cerebral neo-noir starts with a reckless attraction. Two strangers adrift in present- day Italy, both outwardly cavalier but hiding wounds from compromised pasts, entwine at just about first sight. James Figueras (Claes Bang) needs a hit. Long on charm but currently short on life’s more bankable currencies, the darkly handsome art critic treads water at his profession’s margins in Milan, fueling a shaky search for career redemption with hits of a pharmaceutical nature. Ethereal young beauty Berenice Hollis (Elizabeth Debicki), meanwhile, seems preternaturally self- possessed when she wanders late into one of James’ cleverly self-aggrandizing lectures.