Audition (1999)
Takashi Miike
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Plot Summary
Deceptively innocent at first, Takashi Miike’s Audition finds Shigeharu Aoyama (Ryo Ishibashi, Suicide Club, The Grudge), a middle-aged widower of many years, urged by his teenage son and his film producer friend Yasuhisa Yoshikawa (Jun Kunimura, Ichi The Killer) to get out and start dating again. To help Aoyama meet women, Yoshikawa devises a plan to hold a fake audition for a leading lady. Reluctantly agreeing, Aoyama auditions 30 young hopefuls and falls for the silent beauty of Asami (model/actress Eihi Shiina), a former ballerina with a dark past. Their courtship veers from quiet romance to psycho nightmare, realizing “a sadistic breach of contract between filmmaker and audience of which Hitchcock could only dream.” (Richard Falcon, Sight and Sound).
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
TOMATOMETER
79%- Reviews Counted: 67
- Fresh: 53
- Rotten: 14
- Average Rating: 7.2/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: A great, sick rush with a kicker on the level of The Vanishing.
Fresh: A diabolically adroit piece of filmmaking that goes even further than the films of Italy's excruciatingly macabre Dario Argento.
Fresh: A lethally poised Venus flytrap of a movie.
Rotten: This movie, at just under two hours, is a long crawl from inception to climax.
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