I saw the theatrical cut of the film on a movie festival. It should be two minutes shorter, but I didn’t notice any scenes missing (maybe becouse this was my third movie in a row on that day). The only difference I noticed was the different music on the corridor scene at the end. Theatrical cut features a spaghetti western kind of music, that doesn’t really fit the scene. The whole scene is ruined by that music. Director’s cut has much better choice music, making the scene absolutely perfect (the coolest single scene I’ve seen this year).
The print I saw (with Tartan logo in the beginning, suggesting this as a British print) was pretty bad. A Bittersweet Life is visually one of the best looking films I’ve seen, but this was not the case with this print. I don’t know if the problem was just with this specific print, or whether all Tartan prints are this bad.
