Review of Audition (2000) by Lorenzo V — 10 Nov 2009
"She always gets a part".
Widower takes an offer to screen girls at a special audition, arranged for him by a friend to find him a new wife. The one he fancies is not who she appears to be after all...
REVIEW.
While it takes some of its psychological cues from the early thrillers of Roman Polanski, and stylistic excerpts from Kubrick to David Lynch, "Audition" stands on its own as a disturbing, post-modern horror film with passages of genuinely nightmarish surrealism. Director Takashi Miike weaves a tale of an aging widower who holds a fake film audition in hopes of meeting the perfect woman; his intentions are sincere, and he seemingly finds his match in Asami, a physically and psychologically damaged 24-year old who hides a dark past...or does she? While a bit too deliberately-paced at times, overall Miike builds an unusual atmosphere drowned in mounting suspense; his actors sell the premise, and transform "Audition" into something more than a De Palma-esquire exercise in style.
This review of Audition (2000) was written by Lorenzo V on 10 Nov 2009.
Audition has generally received positive reviews.
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