Black Bag: Was the Oscar-Winning Director’s Film Cut? [VIDEO]

MOVIE NEWS – Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh (Traffic) is known for making perfect genre films that are also intimate creative confessions. That’s why he’s been eagerly anticipating his latest work, the spy thriller The Black Bag, where the names of the main characters – Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender – already give you an idea that this is not a lemonade for a Saturday afternoon.

 

For a long time, moviegoers were delighted that The Black Bag would be 148 minutes long, one minute longer than Soderbergh’s best-selling film, Traffic. (The 270-minute Che plays on a different team, as it was split into two separate films: Che – The Argentine, Che – The Guerrilla.)

In comparison, The Black Bag is only 93 minutes long in the databases, so it’s not a record. It’s not known whether the studio talked the director into being more restrained, or whether the 148 minutes were just a hoax. The latter seems more likely, because it’s almost impossible to cut 52 minutes from a coherent epic while keeping the rest viable.

In The Black Bag, Blanchett and Fassbender play a spy couple. The woman is suspected of being a traitor, and the husband must choose whether the woman he loves or the safety of his homeland is more important.

(Black Bag – domestic release: April 3, 2025.)

Source: UIP Dunafilm

 

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