'All Too Well,' a heartbreaking short film by Taylor Swift, may be seen here

Swift makes a brief appearance in the film's epilogue.

Taylor Swift has debuted a short video based on (and named after) the ten-minute version of 'All Too Well' found on her album 'Red (Taylor's Version).'

Only a heated dispute between co-stars Sadie Sink (Stranger Things) and Dylan O'Brien (All Too Well) interrupts the film's soundtrack (Maze Runner).

Swift, who also wrote and directed the film, discussed the scene in question with Jimmy Fallon yesterday (November 12), describing it as "a very dramatic scene" in which Sink and O'Brien "were so electrifying and [improvising] a lot of what they were doing that we just couldn't take the camera off [them]."

The 15-minute film is divided into seven chapters: 'An Upstate Escape,' 'The First Cracks In The Glass,' 'Are You Real?,' 'The Breaking Point,' 'The Reeling,' 'The Remembering,' and 'Thirteen Years Gone,' each of which depicts a pivotal point in Sink and O'Brien's fictionalised romance.

Swift herself appears in the film's epilogue as an older version of Sink's character (neither she nor O'Brien are given real names in the film), speaking at a book reading while her former lover looks on from the street.

Swift told Fallon that the song – a fan favourite from the 2012 version of 'Red,' clocking in at 5:28 for its initial release – was written as a cathartic exercise during a rehearsal session for her 'Speak Now' tour, and that it was first written as a cathartic exercise during a rehearsal session for her 'Speak Now' tour. "I went up for rehearsals depressed and sad, and everyone could tell — it was just not fun to be around me that day," she explained. 

"So I started playing guitar and just kept repeating the same four chords over and over, and the band joined in, and I started improvising what I was going through and experiencing, and it carried on." The song basically went on for maybe ten to fifteen minutes of us doing this, and it just kept building and building in intensity."

Swift also sang the unabridged version of the song acoustically for the first time during the short film's premiere in New York tonight (November 13).

Swift addressed the audience, praising the fan support that had given the original release of 'All Too Well' a life of its own; she called that support "the most important thing about this particular project" and stated that 'All Too Well' is often referred to as one of her best songs because of the fans.

'Red (Taylor's Version)' was released by Republic yesterday. It includes collaborations with Phoebe Bridgers, Ed Sheeran, and others, as well as "all 30 tracks that were planned to go" on the original album. It was supposed to arrive on November 19, but it was pushed back by a week.

"It's not an exercise in revisiting and modifying past songs, but to reclaim ownership of her own music," NME noted in a four-star review. The music is brought into greater focus here, with the opening percussion of 'State of Grace' being crisper, the soft-rock guitar of the title track a little brighter, and the mandolin of 'Stay Stay Stay' raised."

Following the controversial selling of her masters in recent years, Swift is redoing her first six studio albums, up to and including 2017's 'Reputation.' 'Fearless (Taylor's Version)' was released in April, followed by a re-recording of '1989' hit 'Wildest Dreams' last month.

On today's broadcast of Saturday Night Live, the singer-songwriter will perform as a musical guest.

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