The workaholic director offered one of his more "traditional" works in '99 with this mysterious tale dealing in the relationship with an older male and his mysterious new girlfriend who is anything but what he may think. Starting off slow, Audition eventually picks up, offering a few genuinely freaky moments before colliding into the convoluted cop-out's of it's indecisive climax. In between, it feels like the movie suffers from split personality disorder, attempting to be a suspenseful, morbid sort of love story and then, quite rapidly, turning into a surrealist expose which helped usher in the current craze of "torture porn" (and to that effect, achieves it's goals far more effectively then current torture flicks).
Review of Audition
