Burnt Orange Heresy, The

[Opens Aug. 7 at select Emagine Theaters.] After a shady, ambitious, charming, well-known art critic (Claes Bang), who desires deep down to be a successful artist, accepts an invitation from a wealthy, pompous art collector (Mick Jagger) to visit his Italian summer estate on the shores of Lake Como with his new free-spirited, small-town, American teacher girlfriend (Elizabeth Debicki), who is from Duluth, Minn., in this engaging, dark, well-acted, unpredictable, 99-minute, 2019 neo-noir thriller adapted from Charles Willeford's 1971 novel and highlighted by striking cinematography, he contemplates stealing a valuable painting from the art studio of a legendary, reclusive artist (Donald Sutherland) for the ruthless collector in exchange for heading up an art gallery, but his devious plan has unforeseen consequences.
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