Filmreihe something weird cinema
Vorführung am Fr 20.09.24 um 22.30 Uhr !

"A diabolically adroit piece of filmmaking that goes even further than the excruciatingly macabre Dario Argento." (--- Los Angeles Times)

Sieben Jahre nach dem Tod seiner Frau will der Geschäftsmann Aoyama wieder heiraten. Sein Freund, ein TV-Produzent, organisiert ein Casting für eine angebliche Fernsehserie, an dem auch die schöne und unnahbare Asami teilnimmt. Aoyama verliebt sich in sie, trifft sich mit ihr, sie verbringen eine Nacht miteinander. Doch dann verschwindet Asami, und die Männer stoßen bei ihren Nachforschungen auf zahlreiche Ungereimtheiten. Ist die so mädchenhaft wirkende Frau in Wahrheit eine sadistische Mörderin?

"10+ years ago, I saw the torture scene as a woman's bloody, uncensored vengeance upon a man who'd had the power to toy with her, and shape her future. Now, AUDITION no longer feels like a war-of-the-sexes with one victor. Instead, it's a sad commentary on a quagmire that seems more timely than ever, and leaves both sides debilitated. Maybe that's not as sexy and doesn't carry the same cultural cachet, but for me the film has finally moved beyond its iconic image. Deeper, deeper, deeper." (--- Teresa Nieman, Screen Anarchy (2017))

"To view AUDITION only as a horror film, to continually emphasize the graphic power of its final act at the expense of what precedes it, is to ignore the film's robust vision. AUDITION is a psychological drama, a detonation of romantic-comedy clichés, as well as a brutal examination of social isolation and malaise, and the gulf that often exists between men and women." (Chuck Bowen, Slant (2019))

"If I told you more about the plot of AUDITION, it would spoil a number of seriously macabre surprises. So let's just say this is a Takeshi Miike film – an extremist psycho-thriller featuring scarred thighs, home addresses which turn out to have been boarded up for years, drugged whisky, acupuncture needles, piano wire and some quite terrifying time-slips. It's drawn from a story by the notorious Murakami Ryu and written for the screen by Imamura Shohei's son Tengan Daisuke. It's superbly photographed by Yamamoto Hideo, who shot "Hana-bi" and "Ring 2". And it's calculated to make you think twice about everything from ballet lessons to paranoid nightmares." (--- International Film Festival Rotterdam 2000)

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