‘Bardo’: Inarritu Has Cut 22 Minutes of the Original Runtime, From 174 to 152 Minutes

I don’t care about the negative reviews it received, I am very excited to catch Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s “Bardo” in a few weeks.

For now, a 174 minute cut was alexclusively shown at both Venice and Telluride. Today comes the news (via Eric Kohn) that Inarritu has snipped 22 minutes of the original runtime, which now sits at 152 minutes.

Iñarritu has been wrestling with his vision a lot in recent weeks. In addition to working on the trailer, the filmmaker reopened the edit on his movie after watching it with audiences in Venice and Telluride, shrinking and rearranging certain scenes while adding a new one in.

This new cut of the film will have its world premiere this week at the San Sebastien Film Festival.

Inarritu’s original cut for the film ran 4 hours and he tells Kohn that he will keep editing it until it’s released to get “the best film while I can,” adding, “You never finish a film. The deadlines just ask you to deliver it.”

In July, I kept saying that Inarrritu was tight on time as he was editing “Bardo” with the hope that it would still be submitted to Venice. It was a rush job, but the Mexican filmmaker really wanted to go to the Lido and premiere his personal film.

A new trailer has also arrived for the film and it looks absolutely gorgeous.