The Burnt Orange Heresy (2019)

Elizabeth Debicki: Berenice Hollis

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• Berenice Hollis : It's not real, James. You're not real.

• Berenice Hollis : Hollis. Berenice Hollis.

• Berenice Hollis : Ever wonder when something is just starting, how it's gonna end?

• James Figueras : Are you interested in art, Ms. Hollis?

  Berenice Hollis : I just came here for the potato chips.

• Berenice Hollis : That's what art's about, isn't it? The truth.

  James Figueras : No. I mean, pumpkin, if it's just about telling the truth, anybody could do it.

• James Figueras : What are you doing this weekend?

  [Berenice scoffs] 

  James Figueras : What?

  Berenice Hollis : You're supposed to ask me out *before* you fuck me.

• Berenice Hollis : You treat serious things as if they were trivial and trivial things as if they were serious.

• James Figueras : Duluth, huh? Thought there was an accent.

  Berenice Hollis : A Duluth accent?

  James Figueras : Minnesota. Something weird with the vowels.

• Jerome Debney : If you are an egg, I hope you'll be careful.

  Berenice Hollis : Trust me, I'm anything but an egg.

  Jerome Debney : Do you know the saddest egg of all? The egg that believes it's a stone.

• Berenice Hollis : Lying's easy when you tell the truth.

• Berenice Hollis : We gonna dance to this tune again?

• Berenice Hollis : Where are you taking me?

  Jerome Debney : "Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild."

• Berenice Hollis : When I got to Italy, I thought, "Why not? Play the whore for a little while. See how it feels."

  Jerome Debney : And does it suit you? This new mask?

  Berenice Hollis : Turns out, I'm all right at it.

  Jerome Debney : You have to be careful, my dear. A mask can be a perilous thing. When I take mine off at night, another waits beneath.

• Berenice Hollis : Acting a little strange, boss.

  James Figueras : How long have you known me?

  Berenice Hollis : A few days.

  James Figueras : So how can you possibly say what's strange and what's normal?

• Berenice Hollis : I should tell you the truth.

  James Figueras : About what?

  Berenice Hollis : Myself.

  James Figueras : And what would that be?

  Berenice Hollis : Small-town girl, made a mistake. In way over her head, paddling about with sharks like you.

  James Figueras : Little Bo-Peep, huh?

  Berenice Hollis : Pretty much.

• Jerome Debney : When I'm truly finished, I scrawl the title, the date and my initials. For posterity's sake, you understand.

  Berenice Hollis : [reading the back of a canvas]  "The Burnt Orange Heresy."

  Jerome Debney : A favorite.

  Berenice Hollis : What does it mean?

  Jerome Debney : It's a bone tossed to the critics, those ravenous dogs. They can wear themselves out chewing on it. Searching for meaning where there is none.

• Berenice Hollis : This isn't who you are, Slick.

  James Figueras : Pumpkin, you haven't the slightest idea who I am.