How can a wasteland be "washed in somewhat queasy-ugly bleached orange"?

I was very confused when I came across a sentence in “The body politic” in New York Times (June 28)

Set in Tampa (but also shot in California), a palm-lined wasteland that Mr. Soderbergh has washed in somewhat queasy-ugly bleached orange, the movie opens at the club with the owner-M.C., Dallas (a spectacular, amusingly sleazed-out Matthew McConaughey), running down the rules for the female clientele.

I think "bleached orange" is some kind of color. Wash a wasteland in a color, in a movie, what does that mean? I'm totally confused.

I also failed to find "sleazed-out" in dictionaries. I know sleaze means tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar. but what does "sleazed-out" mean?

Solution 1:

Soderbergh is a cinematographer. The "bleached orange" is probably a filter he has added to the film to tint the backgrounds in order to produce some sort of effect in the viewer.

"Sleazed-out" means that Matt McConaughey (who is generally clean-cut and good-looking) has been made to look like a sleaze.