Avalon (DVD)

Description: Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy - Science Fiction / Director: Mamoru Oshii / Actors: Malgorzata Foremniak, Jerzy ... more

Avalon (DVD) ... Gudejko ... / DVD released 18 October, 2004 at Bluelight / Features of the DVD: PAL / In the future there is an illegal virtual reality game called Avalon. Ash, a star player of the game, learns of a rumoured advanced level of the game and puts her life at risk in order to experience it.

Newest Review: ... played a computer game, called Wizard, in which he was able to create a virtual fortune, which led him to wondering why such ... more

... fortunes could not be turned into real money. Thus, the basis of Avalon was founded. But why does the film work when the plot is so, well, unoriginal. The reasons are numerous. The first is the look of the film. Each scene, until the end, was digitally manipulated, affecting the colour and creating images of stunning originality and often beauty. There colour is never quite sepia, but also never quite black and white or colour. The careful and delicate hues give each scene a striking and hypnotic appearance, whether i...more

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	Avalon [DVD] Release Date: 2004 - 10 - 18, Rating Suitable for 12 years and over, Last Update 25.12.2009 05:45	£ 77.50

Avalon [DVD]
Release Date: 2004 - 10 - 18, Rating Suitable for 12 years and over,

Last Update 25.12.2009 05:45

£ 77.50

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Avalon (DVD): Avalon (1680 words)
by - written on 24/02/07 (Very useful, 79 readings)
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Something of an oddity by anime director Mamoru Oshii, Avalon is a live action film, written, produced and directed by the Japanese but filmed in Poland, in Polish with Poles in all roles. Hardly what you would expect from the director of the influential Ghost in the Shell and its sequel, but then again maybe it is. On the surface Avalon looks to be one of those movies influenced, like so many alongside it, by the matrix - but, frankly, it's nothing of the sort. Without going into details of plot (as of yet, anyway), one important point to make of the film is that it treats the unusual and the mundane everydayness of life with equal skill and respect. Both are ... Read the complete review

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