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‘Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna’ Review: A Fascinating Probe Into the Death of Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins
'Last Take,' director Rachel Mason’s Hulu documentary about Halyna Hutchins and her death on the set of 'Rust,' is evenhanded and impactful.
It’s a theory that might seem dated today — more than likely, that director now relies heavily if not exclusively on sales to streaming platforms — but the industrial-strength pressure to pinch pennies and stretch dollars continues apace for indie genre filmmakers. In one of this tragic true-life drama’s most bitter ironies, Baldwin accidentally killed Hutchins, and seriously wounded director Joel Souza, when he discharged a prop gun he thought was loaded with blanks, not live rounds. Time and again, Mason upends assumptions fueled by sensationalized news accounts of the tragedy and its aftermath, and none-too-subtly implies that the three people who eventually stood trial for causing Hutchins’ death — Baldwin, assistant director Dave Halls, and armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed — were far from the only ones who could be deemed at least partly culpable.
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