# Cannes Cut
First seen by attendees of the Cannes Film Festival on May 21st, 2006 and not released publicly until [[2021-01-26]] when it was included as an extra on the Arrow Video Blu-Ray.
Nearly everyone who is a fan of [[Southland Tales]] agrees that the Cannes Cut is superior in content and structure to the [[Southland Tales Theatrical Cut|Theatrical Cut]].
See also: [[Southland Tales - Scene Index (Cannes Cut)]]
# Reception
I think that the Cannes Cut of [[Southland Tales]] would be received much better today than it was at Cannes back in 2006.
- The trend at the time was for shorter movies and that trend has reversed in the last few years.
- A lot of people felt that it's theme of terrorism was "too soon" to make a dark satire about. Now I can hardly go a day without seeing a joke about some national tragedy.
- In that era, it was still quite a touchy subject to criticize the PATRIOT Act. But as we've seen in the years since, it was prescient.
- Surreal and absurd films have been blockbusters, particularly those of Christopher Nolan and The Daniels. I feel that audiences would feel less out of their depth due to media literacy.
Is this just a long winded way to say it was ahead of its time? Yeah, pretty much. It is still a messy film, but got worse than it deserved.