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BURNING SHADOW

By Alexandre NAHON

BLEIBERG ENTERTAINMENT LLC - as SALES All rights, World / PROD

Thriller - Completed 2019

Reminiscent of films by David Lynch, David Cronenberg and the series "Black Mirror." After discovering a blind vagrant who is his exact look-alike, a young loner is drawn into a dangerous LA underworld.

- Year of production
- 2019
- Genres
- Thriller, Drama, Science-fiction
- Countries
- USA, FRANCE
- Budget
- 3 - 5 M$
- Duration
- 88 mn
- Director(s)
- Alexandre NAHON
- Writer(s)
- Alexandre NAHON, Brian SWINEHART
- Cast
- Russell Matthew LEWIS, Roxane MESQUIDA, Julie DELPY, Roger Guenveur SMITH, Richard EDSON
- Producer(s)
- Ehud BLEIBERG, Nicholas DONNERMEYER, Florence ROUDAUT, Jeff GUILLOT
- Synopsis
- Charlie (Matthew Dennis Lewis, "The Queen's Gambit") is a young loner who works at a diner for a mirthless boss (Academy Award nominee® Julie Delpy, “Before Midnight”), struggling to even pay his rent. Seemingly his only friend is regular customer Mr. Jones (Roger Guenveur Smith, “American Gangster”), an affable businessman with ties to the mob. Jones also runs a nightclub, which Charlie visits and soon begins his obsession with one of the dancers, Summer (Roxane Mesquida, "Kiss of the Damned”).
  
  One evening, after an odd exchange with a bartender who says luck is coming his way, Charlie crosses paths with a blind homeless man who is his exact double, a doppelganger. Perplexed and intrigued by the discovery, Charlie invites the man into his life. What follows is a twisted, philosophical examination of desperation, fear, love and greed, told through the lens of classic film noir, with a celestial twist.