‘Rustin’ Review: Colman Domingo A Force In Biopic That Gives Civil Rights Leader His Due – Telluride Film Festival
deadline.comColman Domingo blows through the title role like a force of nature in Rustin, an exhilarating biographical drama about the highly significant but not widely known civil rights leader Bayard Rustin, whose career and reputation in the 1960s were minimized, at least in part, by his hardly disguised homosexuality.
Director George C. Wolfe is best known for his extensive work in the theater, and what he has delivered here is exciting in several ways as it roars out of the gate, maintains an unflagging momentum all the way and will leave most viewers knowing a good deal more about the civil rights movement than they did the day before.
This is a film for anyone remotely interested in the issues of the time and, especially in some of its lesser known aspects of, and disagreements with, the movement that have often been quietly pushed to the side.
Any number of politicos and activists from this crucial period remain household names to the point of being major icons. But in less than two hours, you will probably learn a lot more as you behold the many cross-currents, strongly held positions, setbacks, ideological battles and moments of bravery, both familiar and unknown, that course through this tempestuous drama.
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