Audition
- heavy
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
Heavy, steady, extreme horror / drama, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →Seven years after the death of his wife, widower Shigeharu seeks advice on how to find a new wife from a colleague. Taking advantage of their position as a film company, they stage an audition. Interviewing a series of women, Shigeharu is enchanted by the quiet Asami. But soon things take a twisted turn as Asami isn’t what she seems to be.
Our read · Audition (2000) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive horror · drama entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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The shape of Audition
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