Casting About

All Actors should see this as a primer for auditioning on camera.

(Viewed at the Midwest Independent Film Festival, Chicago, 2006)Imagine interviewing for a job. Now imagine that you are asked a myriad of questions.

I saw this film on opening night in New York and I highly recommend seeing it. I read the review in the New York Times and was so intrigued.

I had a negative reaction to this film and submit an opinion that may be unpopular, but I think still valid based on the fact that I have auditioned a lot of actors in my time. I think Mr Hershey errs in ways that for me make the film a painful experience.

The film was a stroke of genius. Even the title has infinite entendre--Casting About--for players, for a real persona, for the nature of women, for the shortfall of male-female relations, for the fine line between reality and illusion for the actresses who are drawing from real life experience or creating their own fantastic expression of the unreal character, for the internationalism touching on the universality of the polymorphic feminine--the film had both subjective and objective points of engagement.