| Midnight Eye review: Avalon (2000) (1078 words) |
 | Avalon's main point of interest is its use of digital manipulation to investigate Ash's various levels of reality by selectively stripping away the colours from the image, rather than adding to it. |
| Regardless of whether this gaping void at the heart of the narrative is intentional or not, the film comes across as cold and impenetrable beneath its hard-edged exterior, and though Itoh's script prompts fascinating questions, few of these are resolved by the end in a needlessly protracted and the dramatically rather flaccid denouement. |
| On a technical level at least, Avalon is a landmark film and definitely one to see on the big screen should the opportunity arise, though its lacklustre performance at the Asian box office and ambivalent reception at this year's Cannes make this seem an unlikely option. |
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