The six-hour fever dream that broke Hollywood and its director.
Split into three parts and featuring interviews with the crew of SOUTHLAND TALES, including Richard Kelly, the story of how this film was made, screwed over in post-production and still technically is unfinished is told.
Direction
Griffith wrangles chaos into coherent tragedy.
Production
The six-hour cut that nearly existed.
Editing
How Cannes destroyed a film in 24 hours.
Director
Daniel Griffith
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kelly's six-hour cut included animated sequences and an entire subplot about time-traveling Marxist revolutionaries that vanished entirely.
Southland Tales' Cannes reception was so catastrophic it became shorthand for 'ambitious disaster'—yet its reappraisal as prescient political satire grows yearly.
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