"Beeban Kidron's...Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is widely hailed as 'the best lesbian coming-of-age film ever,' and marked Kidron as a major new talent in British cinema. Her new film-a modest 16mm production for BBC-is the first great English movie of the '90s. Based on a story by Marcy Kahan, Antonia and Jane: A Definitive Annual Report is a wise and very funny chronicle of a friendship between a cool beauty who seems to have it all (men, career, looks), and an endearingly masochistic lost soul seeking truth and meaning in life" (Telluride Film Festival `90). Anna Campion has a talent similar to her sister Jane's for defamiliarizing the everyday. But The Audition alternates its comi-cynical visual humor with a lyricism that is as moving as it is startling. The story twists timeless mother-daughter tensions into a new weave: here, a mother, Edith, a former stage actress, auditions for a role selected by her daughter Jane, a film director. The role: "A provincial schoolteacher, who has a passion for poetry you wouldn't expect." As, of course, does Edith, between disappointing lapses, and moments of mutual mother-daughter manipulation ("You burrow into other people and set up house!").