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Sadness Hangs Over Rust, in More Ways Than One
It’s not possible to watch the Alec Baldwin western without thinking of the accident that took cinematographer Halyna Hutchins’s life.
One night, however, his grandfather, Harland Rust (Alec Baldwin), a legendary aging outlaw who hasn’t been heard from for years, emerges to break his grandson out of jail and whisk him across the border. The existential dilemma faced by these characters is matched by the rapturous and forbidding beauty of the landscape around them: distant mountains, endless forests, gray tendrils of cloud against big orange skies, little farmhouses and shacks hanging on for dear life in vast stretches of emptiness. The picture is dedicated to Hutchins, and its brooding elegance, its rich shadows and evocative close-ups, demonstrates her achievement: Visually, Rust is often astonishing — which of course reminds us all over again of the dark specter hanging over the film.
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