Audition (Miike, 1999): Rio Cinema, 8.30pm
This 35mm screening is part of the cinema's Rio Forever strand and will be introduced by filmmaker and Hackney resident Asif Kapadia.
Time Out review:
Seven years after losing his wife to cancer, video producer Aoyama (Ryo Another Lonely Hitman
Ishibashi) finds the new bride of his dreams at a casting call for a
non-existent movie. Asami (Shiina) is modest, polite, sexy, a trained
dancer - and, apparently, available. As Aoyama nervously begins dating
her, the film slips into nightmare. Is his paranoia and guilt causing
him to imagine the worst, or is Asami really a woman physically and
mentally damaged by men since her childhood and out for revenge?
Creatively reworked from a script by the son of director Shohei Imamura,
this was a breakthrough film for Miike: his first to win festival
prizes and overseas sales. It takes sex war tensions to an hallucinatory
extreme and has a Grand Guignol climax that leaves many males crawling
to the exits.
Tony Rayns
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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