Variety has been given exclusive access to the first teaser for German actor-turned-director Ina Weisse’s second behind-the-camera feature “The Audition,” world premiering at the Toronto Film Festival Discovery section on Sunday night.The film stars Germany’s internationally acclaimed Nina Hoss as a highly strung violin teacher still suffering under the yoke of her own overbearing parents even into middle age, and years after her mother has passed.
When the gifted teacher gets a new student, full of talent but lacking in technique, it puts a strain on her relationship with her own son, a gifted violin player in his own right, and pushes her need for perfection to abusive levels.
Meanwhile, things become further strained at home as a new rival for her romantic attention emerges.In the teaser, we are introduced to Anna (Hoss) and her student prodigy Alexander, as well as a one of the extreme
Read full article