NEW DVD: UNCUT VERSION

Sorry, I misunderstood you and thought the critic comment on the CD was about the CD itself and not the movie, my fault.

Anyway, I really don't find more than a couple of sources saying it's 144 min long, and they talk about the premiere, not regular release in theathers:

Version reviewed was director's original 144-min. cut, preemed at the 1992 Guadalajara fest. Pic was subsequently released in Mexico at 114 mins. and in the U.S. at 106 mins.

That would be closer to a director realizing his cut is not that good after screening it in front of a smaller audience an cutting if afterwards that cutting it for foreigns. Many directors do that and consider the fest/premiere/screening version just a trial version before finishing it, just part of the edition process.

I've just watched it yesterday (first regular, then with the Spanish commentaries) and not Alfonso, Lumi or Marco talk about any other cut or anything missing on that 105 minute one, and of course not any desire to recover that version. I also watched the 113min version and I can't say what it adds makes it any better and in fact I think some moments are spoiled by adding some unnecessary elements that split other two sequences that match better together without the other one in the middle. I mean, the longest is not always the better if not made properly.

I don't think that 144 minute version was cut for that English and subtitled thing anyway, if that was the reason at least it would have been released in full 144 in Mexico at some point for TV or domestic video, and it never happened.

Did you watch the Guadalajara fest version?

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