Region 4 Winners and Losers

    The Region 1 release differs from the Region 4 release in having an audio commentary involving director Pedro Almodovar and actress Geraldine Chaplin. It is by all accounts an excellent effort too, even though in Spanish with English subtitles. The Region 1 release also features some additional trailers (but not one for the film itself) and an additional French dub in Dolby Digital 5.1 sound. Given a similar high quality in the audio and video transfers, it would seem to be the version of choice. Unfortunately, I could not find an English language review for any of the myriad of Region 2 releases, but from my pitiful attempts at various European languages it would appear that aside from differences in language soundtracks, the DVDs are similarly speced.