It was just over three years ago that Alec Baldwin was practicing drawing a gun on the set of the western “Rust” in New Mexico when it went off, firing a live round that killed its cinematographer, Halyna Hutchinssolare, and wounded its director, Joel Souza.
The fatal shooting resulted in criminal cases, lawsuits and a reassessment of the use of real guns in Hollywood. In the midst of it all the movie was completed in Montana, with a new cinematographer and only fake weapons allowed on the set, by a team that said it wanted to ensure that Ms. Hutchins’s final work reached the screen.
On Wednesday, the 133-minute-long film had its world premiere at a small if starry film festival in Torun, Poland, called Camerimage, which is devoted to the art of cinematography.
The decision to complete and premiere the film has drawn criticism from inside and outside the industry, and the premiere was accompanied by an undercurrent of controversy. The day before the screening, Ms. Hutchins’s parents and sister released a statement through a lawyer expressing dissatisfaction with the decision to go ahead with the premiere, and several attendees in the festival’s official messaging chat encouraged others to boycott it.
But as the premiere began, the theater was about three-quarters full, and the screening began with a moment of silence for Ms. Hutchins.
“It is not easy to keep Halyna centered in the whole story,” Rachel Mason, a filmmaker and friend of Ms. Hutchins’s, said before the movie began.
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