I saw
an early cut of this film, it's um... interesting.
You could see similar elements in Lodge Kerrigan's chilly «Claire Dolan» (with a dash of Polanski in there — an unsettling manicure scene followed by a startling shot involving a mirror on an armoire)-- and, sure enough, it turns out that the young, unknown Bahrani so admired Kerrigan's work that he sent
him an early cut of the film and asked for Kerrigan's advice.
Bruno Mars says that he had the song «It Will Rain» halfway finished before he saw
an early cut of the film.
«Salinger & Whitman - Extended Scene» (11:23, HD) is a salvaged chunk out of
an earlier cut of the film, nicely presented in HD.