Back in January, I mentioned that Corbin Bernsen was shooting a movie in Kipling, Saskatchewan about a minister who experiences a crisis of faith. Now, the Regina Leader-Post reports that that movie, Rust, had its world premiere last Thursday in the small town where it was shot:
Rust, which is a prairie term for crop disease, is a drama that centres on Bernsen’s character, a minister that’s having a midlife crisis of faith. He returns to his hometown and while there, a tragedy strikes the town. The character is left to try and make sense of both the crime and his own lack of faith while battling the elements of a bitter Saskatchewan winter.
Art imitated life during the filming with the cast and crew having to film during days of bitter cold. While it made filming challenging, Bernsen is adamant it helped make the movie better. . . .
“There was a message in this thing about patience,” said Bernsen, who served as producer, writer, director and actor for the project. “You know what it’s like in the cold. It’s like turning the motor over and it just doesn’t want to start. I wanted that feeling of having to unlock from the frozen environment to let the story crack through the ice, as it were. Sometimes movies can do two things: They can move you through story, which most movies do, but they can also move you through environment, putting you in a place and feeling where you can feel yourself in a specific place.
“I wanted that as much as anything. You know how it is, in that cold nothing moves quickly.”
The film apparently aired on the SCN network in Saskatchewan over the weekend, and it will be shown again, twice, on Boxing Day.
Here is the trailer:
Thanks to Debra Sears for the heads-up.
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