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`Audition'.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

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| November 01, 2001 | Rea, Steven | COPYRIGHT 2001 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Until the phone rings _ a shattering clang in the room where the quiet, pretty Asami lives _ things in "Audition" have been fairly benign. Sure, there's an offensive scam in which a widower and his film-producer friend interview 30 young women for what the actresses believe is a movie project, though it is, in fact, just a means for the widower to find his "ideal woman." And there are some peculiar dinner conversations between the widower, Aoyoma (Ryo Ishibashi), and his teen-age son about fish and ovaries.

But when that phone rings, writer-director Takashi Miike's brutally creepy drama takes flight (and fright); it's a chilling study in sexual pathology, male ...

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