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)
Documentary
Production Companies:
Boogaloo Films
Little Big Story
Mosaic
Production Countries:
France
Spain
Astro
Videos
Date: 2021-04-21T14:18:45.000Z
Hot Docs 2021 Trailers: MAGALUF GHOST TOWN
Date: 2021-04-19T11:52:13.000Z
Magaluf Ghost Town - Official Trailer (Eng. subtitles)
