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Magaluf Ghost Town (2021)
Directed by Miguel Ángel Blanca
“Magaluf, Mallorca, a peaceful seaside town that turns into one of the most heavily overcrowded tourist destinations in summer. How do the locals survive in this low-cost tourist paradise?”
Documentary · 1h 33m
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)
Cast
Crew
- Director
- Miguel Ángel Blanca
- Writer
- Miguel Ángel Blanca
- Director of Photography
- Raúl Cuevas
- Editor
- Javier Gil, Miguel Ángel Blanca, Ariadna Ribas
- Producer
- Valérie Montmartin, Bernat Manzano, Miguel Eek
Details
- Release date
- 2021-11-26
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- ES
- Spoken languages
- Spanish, French, Russian
- Countries
- France, Spain
- Production
- Boogaloo Films, Little Big Story, Mosaic