Running at nearly three hors, this new and extensively restored, re-edited and reconstructed cut purports to be the closest yet to the director's original vision of this notoriously troubled 1979 movie, through painstaking restoration of previously unused footage, new music, some effects work and the removal of the Guccioni-sanctioned hardcore, er, inserts. This new version does achieve its aim of restoring focus on character, the dramatic story and its stars' performances to some extent, but the basic story remains and it does still look like a grandiose folly with its painfully slow pace, expensive cheap-looking sets and mannered theatrical-style performances, with occasional flashes of the excesses of sex and violence remaining.
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