Watch Clive Owen Star in Paolo Sorrentino’s Stylish Short Film for Campari, Killer in Red

Paolo Sorrentino, creator of The Young Pope, has gone the way of Wes Anderson by making a short film-as-commercial with his new short, Killer in Red. Written by communications firm J. Walter Thompson, this is an extended ad for the alcoholic liqueur Campari, starring Clive Owen.

Owen plays a man who has some problems. Two of them are that he “looks like a lot of people” and is “often late.” Owen sits down at a bar to have a drink and is told a story by the bartender about the previous bartender, also played by Owen. Owen’s bartender purportedly serves cocktails explicitly made for individual people and their situations. Intercut some ‘80s disco with a Hollywood murder plot, and it serves up a pulpy, stylish noir-thriller.

It’s weird, in kind of a great way. Check out Killer in Red above.