Magaluf Ghost Town
Magaluf Ghost Town

Movie·2021·1h 33m

Magaluf Ghost Town

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?

Country

France

Language

Spanish

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The Story

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)

Producer

Bernat Manzano, Valérie Montmartin

Cinematography

Raúl Cuevas

Editor

Miguel Ángel Blanca

Themes

hybridghost storysummer romancemass tourism

Production House

Boogaloo Films
Little Big Story
Mosaic

Audience Score

35%

2 votes

Skip23%
Timepass54%
Go for it19%
Perfection4%

Where to watch

Region: ES

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// cast

Cast

Javier Gil

// crew

Crew

Bernat Manzano

Producer

Valérie Montmartin

Producer

Miguel Eek

Miguel Eek

Producer

Miguel Ángel Blanca

Miguel Ángel Blanca

Director, Writer, Editor

Raúl Cuevas

Director of Photography

Javier Gil

Editor

Ariadna Ribas

Ariadna Ribas

Editor

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