The art world is known for its beauty and interpretation of masterpieces in the eye of the beholder. Then again, the art world is a place for its deceitfulness and corruption for these high-valued pieces. Director Alessio Della Valle wanted to portray these two worlds in the noir film American Night.

The film has an all-star cast with Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Emile Hirsch, Jeremy Piven, Paz Vega, and Michael Madsen.

Here’s the official synopsis for American Night:

Art and life collide in this stylish and wildly entertaining neo-noir thriller. When a highly coveted Andy Warhol painting suddenly surfaces, it triggers a chain reaction of danger-filled events for a colorful group of characters including a forger turned art dealer (Jonathan Rhys Meyers); a mobster, and painter (Emile Hirsch) with a penchant for scorpions; a seductive museum conservator (Paz Vega); and a stuntman and wannabe ninja (Jeremy Piven). Filled with daring double-crosses and surprising twists and turns, the race for the painting comes to an explosive conclusion…..one American Night.

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LRM Online’s Gig Patta discussed artworks, film production, the colorful cast, and characters of American Night with director and writer Alessio Della Valle.

Alessio Della Valle is an Italian director. He has a degree cum laude from Bologna University’s DAMS and studied theater and drama at the Samuel Beckett Center in Trinity College in Dublin. Also, he studied at the Los Angeles Film School and at the Music Academy of Florence. His past credits included The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, Inside the Stones, and Napoleon Returns to Galleria Borghese. He worked as a director for Fox, MTV, and Disney in the past and directed commercials for Hello Kitty, Bose, Tommy Hilfiger, and many more. Also, he directed the opera The Girl of the Golden West by Giacomo Puccini, which was performed live in Los Angeles.

American Night is in select theaters, on VOD and Digital starting tomorrow, October 1.

Watch the exclusive interview with director Alessio Della Valle below. Let us know what you think of it.

Source: LRM Online Exclusive, Lionsgate