After a successful run on last year’s film festival circuit, “The Burnt Orange Heresy” was expected to be one of the most anticipated dramas of 2020. However, the film was released in theaters by Sony Pictures Classics just days before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the entire theatrical industry. Thankfully, the film is now available on all home formats and people can watch Donald Sutherland, Claes Bang, and Elizabeth Debicki in this star-studded film.
And in honor of “The Burnt Orange Heresy” arriving on home video, we are thrilled to give our readers an exclusive look at a featurette that shows Sutherland and his co-stars talk about his character and what makes the film such an intriguing watch. The film tells the story of an elusive, enigmatic artist (Sutherland) that becomes the target of a planned heist perpetrated by an art critic (Bang) and his new love interest (Debicki).
In our review of the film, we commended the work of the cast, particularly Sutherland, and said, “Sutherland is magnificent as the fading, ancient painting of an artist content with his life, unburdened and untouched by the prying critics that hunt him, ‘those ravenous dogs,’ he calls them. Debicki rises to the challenge of the great actor…Simply put, they own all the film’s best scenes.”
“The Burnt Orange Heresy” is out now on Digital, Blu-ray, and DVD. You can watch the exclusive featurette below.
Here’s the 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 the 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.