Janne is an adult teenager, mentally stuck in the consumerist 80s. After serving time in prison, Janne (superbly acted by Johannes Brost) travels to Båstad to open an exclusive nightclub and get his life back on track. During the star-studded tennis week, he makes his final preparations and enjoys life as a soon-to-be-crowned club king. But just a few days before the club’s premier, Janne causes a catastrophic accident. His increasingly desperate attempts to deal with the situation drag him into a dark downward spiral. Wherever the impressive mood thriller AVALON has been shown it has scooped awards, and was billed as “this year’s best Swedish film” by Lovefilm DK.

"A film that echoes some of the best of recent Scandinavian art cinema [...] The pic is a fascinating and ultimately haunting movie, partly because of the way Petersen choreographs his characters, but also because of those characters themselves." – John Anderson, Variety

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