Audition (2000)
Directed by Takashi Miike
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.
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He's moved by the accident she says halted her ballet career (a subtle reference to "Suspiria" perhaps?).
Even the most jaded video addicts -- the sort of Travis Bickles who consider Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer a good first-date movie -- salivate over the prospect of Miike's latest outrage.
Audition is Takashi Miike's neo-Darwinian exercise in terror, playing out like a comfy companion piece to Shall We Dance?