I luuuuve the Redux (And the spoiler, I think, is rather a gentle one, safe for most.)

Rating: 10/10 (27 June 2005)

Guys, guys, guys, I sure don't get it why there are some of you who claim the 2002 Redux version killed the film. To me, the restored scenes make the work complete and -- maybe you're way smarter than me -- they helped clarify and enrich the key characters' motives and personalities and helped me understand some important points or ideas of the movie I had hitherto been in the dark about, however much I loved the pre-Redux cut. I'm talking especially, but not only, about the French farm scenes including the quarrel over politics after dinner and, most of all, scenes with the superb acting of the sexy Aurore Clément, especially the bedroom one.
Almost 3.5 hrs without being bored once. And I seen the Redux some 5-6 times.
(My only crime affecting my comment, almost capital one, to which I feel I ought to plead guilty is not having read Conrad's Heart of Darkness, the basis for the movie.)