The Audition

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Title

The Audition

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NZ On Screen

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Anna Campion directs her mother Edith and younger sister Jane in this slyly observed short: a re-imagining of Edith’s (reluctant) audition for a small role in Jane’s An Angel at My Table. From when Edith picks Jane up at the airport en route to her Otaki home, the professional and personal roles blur. Anxiety, huffs and matriarchal needling ensue as an often comic, sometimes poignant domestic tango between the former stage actress and film director Jane plays out in front of the camera. Anna ...

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Video

Date created

1989

URL

https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/the-audition-1989

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acting / direction / citroen / otaki / driving / sprinkler / magpie / improvisation / improvised / ten speed / cycling / aging / lycra / domestics / anxiety / depression / elocutionist / psychopathology / wellington / te horo / te horo beach / interview

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