The Audition

Name: The Audition
Genre: Drama
Released: June 26, 2020
Duration: 99 min
Rating: 65
Cast: Ilja Monti, Jana Kuss, Jens Albinus, Mikayel Hakhnazaryan, Nina Hoss

2020

METASCORE

Generally favorable reviews based on 13 Critic Reviews

See All

USER SCORE

No score yet

tbd

VOTE NOW

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

tbd	Your Score
tbd	User Score No score yet

Would you like to write a review?

There is a 75 character minimum for reviews. If your review contains spoilers, please check the Spoiler box. Please do not use ALL CAPS. There is no linking or other HTML allowed. Your review may be edited for content. 0/5000

Check box if your review contains spoilers

Play Sound

Please enter your birth date to watch this video:

You are not allowed to view this material at this time.

The Audition (US Trailer 1)

Now Playing: The Audition (US Trailer 1)

Movie Details & Credits

Strand Releasing | Release Date (Streaming): June 26, 2020 | Not Rated

Starring: Ilja Monti, Jana Kuss, Jens Albinus, Mikayel Hakhnazaryan, Nina Hoss, Serafin Mishiev, Simon Abkarian, Sophie Rois, William Coleman, Winnie Böwe

Summary: Anna Bronsky is a violin teacher at a music-focused high school. Despite the opposition of all other teachers, Anna drives through the admission of a student, Alexander, in whom she detects a remarkable talent. Committed, she prepares him for the intermediate exam and neglects her family – her son Jonas, whom she brings into competitionAnna Bronsky is a violin teacher at a music-focused high school. Despite the opposition of all other teachers, Anna drives through the admission of a student, Alexander, in whom she detects a remarkable talent. Committed, she prepares him for the intermediate exam and neglects her family – her son Jonas, whom she brings into competition with her new student, and her husband Philippe. Her colleague Christian, with whom she has an affair, persuades her to join a quintet. When she fails during their joint concert, the pressure mounts and she focuses all her attention on her student Alexander. Come the day of the exam, events take a tragic turn.… Expand

Director: Ina Weisse

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 99 min

See All Details and Credits

Watch Now

Buy on

Stream On

Expand

Metascore

Positive:

Mixed:

Negative:

Critic Reviews

Joe Morgenstern

Jun 25, 2020

A treat that becomes a chilling enthrallment, one of those closely observed dramas you love — for its intimacy, calm authority and mystery — even before you begin to get what it’s really about. Read full review

Justin Chang

Jun 25, 2020

There’s a special thrill in seeing an actor known for her own eerie perfectionism playing a woman who can’t abide imperfection in herself or others. Read full review

The Observer (UK) Wendy Ide

Apr 5, 2022

The slow creep of the camera mirrors the incremental build in pressure; this is the kind of tension that feels like a tightening chokehold on the audience. Read full review

Lee Marshall

Jun 24, 2020

Weisse puts her own, distinctive spin on this film, keeping the audience guessing about whose story this really is, feeling its way slowly towards a bracing, risky dramatic conclusion that suddenly reshuffles the cards we’ve been dealt. Read full review

Molly Cavanagh

Apr 5, 2022

Despite the evasive final scenes which avoid resolving or contextualising Hoss’s fragile mental state, Weisse delivers a captivating psychological exploration of the all-encompassing plights of achieving excellence. Read full review

The Guardian Leslie Felperin

Apr 5, 2022

In light of the strange, brutal ending that’s more foreshadowed than it seems, it’s hard to work out where Weisse wants to land on issues around the best way to coax talent, especially in fields such as music where you have to put in a relentless amount of hours to achieve the highest results. Read full review

The Playlist Kevin Jagernauth

Jun 24, 2020

The Audition is a harsh, and often cheap, picture that offers a fragmented view of a family diseased by the pursuit of perfection, who yet enable the behavior to continue at the ongoing cost of their happiness. Read full review

SEE ALL 13 REVIEWS

User Score

Write a Review

tbd

Positive:

Mixed:

Negative:

No reviews yet.