Title: Avalon AKA: Year: 2011. Original title: Avalon Runtime: 1 hour, 18 minutes. Country: Sweden. Language: Swedish | English. Subtitles: English, Swedish, Norwegian & Finish. Genre: Drama | Thriller.
Director: Axel Petersén.
Cast
Johannes Brost ... Janne Peter Carlberg ... Klas Léonore Ekstrand ... Jackie Charlotte Wandt ... Agnes
August Wittgenstein ... Michel Stefan Huynh ... Tommy Simas Lindesis ... Donatas Peter Lorentzon ... Stefan Henrik Lilliér ... Becker Migle Polikeviciute ... Irina Rikard Johansson ... Sommargalleristen Jennifer Lila ... Charlotte (as Jennifer Knipe) Etienne Petersén ... Björn Malou Stiller ... Stefanie Michael Preber ... Nic Carl Johan De Geer ... Leif Marianne Hallberg ... Mama Grön Rainer Gerdes ... Jorma Ludvig Nilson ... Täby-Johan Viveka Thalin ... Jane Parisa Rezai Lindorm ... Krabb-Flickan Carl Kumlin ... Bar-Jocke A.J. Trenear ... A.J. Ilja Karilampi ... DJ Christian Christian Carloni ... Bråkstake Karin Hallén ... Såstjej Kelly Marlow ... Fotograf
Plot / Synopsis
For many, the eighties are perceived as the last party decade and remembered with nostalgia. A time of extreme wealth, conspicuous consumption and copious drug-taking, the period was largely defined by loose ethics and blinkered arrogance. The situation is a little different for the denizens of Axel Petersén’s Avalon, however. They’ve never left the eighties, and they still go at it all night, regardless of the consequences.
Party organizer Janne has just reunited with his former business partner Klas, and is looking forward to the launch of their new high-end night club, Avalon (named after one of Roxy Music’s biggest hits). Janne is constantly accompanied by his recently divorced older sister Jackie, who serves as a kind of Greek chorus/family historian, recounting her brother’s peripatetic career as a nightclub owner, realtor and general man about town. (When she’s not speaking admiringly about Janne, she spends her time tanning and drinking.) The good times seem to have returned, but when an unfortunate catastrophe occurs, Janne’s chance to relive the eighties may be permanently put on hold. And he soon discovers that Klas isn’t the fun-loving impresario they remember — he has friends and funders who aren’t exactly the forgiving kind.
First-time feature director Petersén expertly crafts a dark and sometimes hilarious portrait of moral idiots who’ve never left adolescence and care nothing about the repercussions of their actions. (Others always seem to be magically paying for their screw-ups.) It’s obvious they’re not big on irony or easily embarrassed when they barrel down a country road blasting Cher’s “Believe” from the car stereo. But reality may finally have caught up with Janne and his cronies. The film boasts some beautifully nuanced acting, especially from Johannes Brost as Janne, whose rock-jaw good looks suggest a Chet Baker not yet entirely ravaged by experience or shame.
Avalon is a timely and sometimes shocking reminder that, sooner or later, the party has to end
Technical Specs
Source: DVD 5. Group/Ripper: My Rip. Video Format: Matroska / V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC. Video Bitrate: 1 952 Kbps. Frame Rate: 25.000 fps. Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1. Resolution: 720 X 288. Bits/(Pixel*Frame): 0.279 bpp. Audio Format: AC-3 Audio Bitrate: 448 Kbps Sampling rate: 48000 Hz
Subs are 3 seconds slow. If using VLC player version 2.02 go to Tools-> Track Synchronization. Go to "Advance of subtitles over video". Change to -3 and you should have synced subs
Avalon (2011)
