Chris Pope has been drawing comparisons with Ghost In The Shell…
I don’t know if you’ve watched much Japanese Anime, such as Mamoru Oshii’s “Ghost In the Shell” (which is well worth seeing if you liked Avalon). But the interesting thing about the scenes of Ash travelling home (walking up the steps, and the tram ride), is they look exactly like an Anime. An Anime often has “static” background scenes, since it’s a lot of work for them to be otherwise in this media. Ghost in the Shell has some city scenes with very static people standing around, with the exact same dog as in Avalon turning to watch the passing character. (btw, Oshii has a pet dog the same as this). So, though the movie is live actors, it looks exactly like an anime movie in these scenes.