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  • Audition (1999)
    Review preview for Audition

    Scenes of torture may turn the stomach, but underlying them is a greater psychological horror.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    A widower becomes infatuated with a shy ex-ballet dancer and her mysterious past.
  • Bright Future (2003)
    Review preview for Bright Future

    No less enigmatic, broad-reaching and majestically paced than a jellyfish.

    Anton Bitel · 4 out of 5
    Exploration of disaffected youth in Japan.

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