Watch Mick Jagger Play an Evil Art Dealer in the Trailer for His Upcoming Art-World Thriller ‘The Burnt Orange Heresy’

The trailer is finally out for the neo-noir film The
Burnt Orange Heresy, which stars Rolling Stones frontman Mick
Jagger as a wealthy and conniving art dealer named Joseph Cassidy.
Directed by Italian filmmaker Giuseppe Capotondi, the movie
also features Claes Bang as swindling art critic James
Figueras and Elizabeth Debicki as his weekend fling, Berenice
Hollis.

“What is this about?” asks the washed-up Milan art critic at one
point, referring to an impromptu invitation to the sprawling Lake
Como home of Cassidy.

“Redemption, embezzlement, and forgery,” Cassidy resopnds with a
smile.

Jagger, with his slicked-back hair and crisp white suit, seems
at ease in the role, which is his first major acting gig since his
similarly dapper 2001 turn as an escort-agency boss in The
Man from Elysian Fields.

The duplicitous Cassidy has a deal to offer the power-hungry
Figueras: He’ll give the critic access to interview the legendarily
reclusive artist Jerome Debney (played by Donald Sutherland) and
jump-start his flagging career; in return, Figueras has to
“procure” a painting by Debney for Cassidy.

Debney happens to live on the edge of Cassidy’s property in a
creepy little house but there is a bit of a problem.

There is just one problem: Debney keeps his work under lock and
key and no one has seen anything from him in five decades . The
film starts to take dramatic twists and turns of a dark thriller as
ambitious characters each emerge with their own secret motives.

The movie’s release comes amid a spike in art-world thrillers in
recent years. This past fall, The Goldfinch, about a
bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, hit theaters, while
the satirical thriller Velvet Buzzsaw debuted just a few
months earlier. And the film Red Notice,
which stars Ryan Reynolds and Dwayne Johnson in an
Interpol art heist caper, is in the works for 2021.

Although Jagger may look the part of a shady art dealer, he said
in a recent interview that there’s very little of himself in the
character. “I’m not really a collector. I throw things away,”
Jagger said during the film’s premiere in Venice in September,
according to Rolling Stone.
“I buy things and then lose them. I’m a completely hopeless
collector. I’m the complete opposite.”

The film premieres in New York and Los Angeles on March 6. See
the trailer, released on January 24, below.

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