Reviews: August 2001 Archives

The best way to see Takashi Miike's Audition might be to have it handed to you on an unmarked videotape by a friend who knows exactly what freaks you out. So you tabula-rasa types should check out of this review right now. For those of you still here, I'll aver that Audition is the real deal—a masterful exercise in the manipulation of moods that gradually takes on the tonal quality and ambiguities of a nightmare.