Rust review — film drenched in blood cannot escape off-screen tragedy
After the screen snaps to black at the end of Rust, a message appears reading: '… for Halyna.' After that, a quote is ascribed to Halyna Hutchins: 'What can we do to make this better?' Then, her name fades to its spelling in her native Ukrainian. After a card bearing the name of Joel Souza, the director, the next card reads: 'Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, ASC.'
These memorial codas from the American Society of Cinematographers are touching, even if Rust's official release in America feels an acutely queasy exercise after the accidental death of Hutchins on the set of Rust in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in October 2021. Alec Baldwin, who plays the film's protagonist, was positioning a revolver during filming when it went
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