Magaluf Ghost Town
At the height of the summer tourist season, the Spanish beach town Magaluf turns into a hellscape of the low-cost travel industry. For eight weeks every year, over one million mostly British vacationers ride an alcohol-soaked tide of public urination, fisticuffs and ambulance sirens for recreation. Instead of assembling a clip-reel of "balconing," when drunk idiots jump into hotel pools from their balconies, filmmaker Miguel Ángel Blanca crafts a far deeper and atmospheric look at a place where visitors and locals alike are driven by pleasure. Long-time resident Maria has little time left, so she takes in a seasonal lodger who listens to her relive her glory days. An enterprising real estate agent peddles an extravagant development, while a young gay man drifts without any plans beyond robbing a tourist for kicks. Part ghost story, part foreboding parable, this is a stylish and vivid impression of people and a place dreaming of escape. Myrocia Watamaniuk (Hot Docs)
Year: 2021
Genre: Documentary
Studio: Boogaloo Films, Little Big Story, Mosaic
Director: Miguel Ángel Blanca
Cast: Javier Gil
Crew: Valérie Montmartin (Producer), Raúl Cuevas (Director of Photography), Cosmic d'Alessandro (Sound), Sara Fontán (Music), Javier Gil (Editor), Bernat Manzano (Producer)
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