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Avalon

5.6

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Assault Girls

Original title

Avalon

Year

2001

Running time

106 min.

Country

Japan

Director

Mamoru Oshii

Screenwriter

Kazunori Itô

Cast

Music

Kenji Kawai

Cinematography

Grzegorz Kedzierski

Producer

Bandai Visual, Media Factory, Dentsu Inc, Nippon Herald, Deiz Production

Genre

Sci-Fi. Fantasy. Action | Cyberpunk. Computers / Internet. Virtual Worlds

Synopsis

In an imaginary central European city, the highly addictive computer game Avalon offers lavish financial rewards as well as a dangerous and seductive escape from the bleak realities of everyday life.

Ash is a professional, a highly skilled player moving back and forth between actual and virtual realities with ease. A loner, estranged from her fellow man, Ash is close only to her beloved pet dog.

Ghost is an Avalon character, a target who appears as a young girl. On-screen contact with Ghost has left previous players - including Ash's former lover Murphy - terminally damaged. Devoid of all consciousness and condemned to waste away in a sanatorium, they are known as The Lost.

Ash swears to pursue the elusive, deadly Ghost. Only by confronting her spectral enemy will she discover the true nature of reality, the true meaning of life and death.

Awards: 2001: Sitges Fantasy Film Festival: Best Cinematography

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Critics' reviews

"Neither an out-and-out actioner nor a fully realized study of the psychology of games-playing, pic is still reasonably diverting"

Derek Elley: Variety
"Among other things, 'Avalon' may be the first movie that uses contemporary Poland as a special effect."

J. Hoberman: The New York Times
"Manages to create a haunting virtual world that's more mystical than anything the Wachowski brothers have offered us, blending the real and the imagined into a portentous cyberpunk fable."

Jamie Russell: BBC

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Avalon

2001

Mamoru Oshii

5.6

(2,313)