Black & white & red

Hi, Does anybody know how you acheive that effect of black, white and red (eg. like in sin city)?

Sin City was shot by applying a special paint/dye to objects they wanted in color. Then Rodriguez isolated these objects in his NLE (I don't remember what he used), and desaturated everything else.

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