by zEke
it’s all gone pete tong is not only a fake documentary about a disk jokey going deaf but the one hundredth review by deadhours.
Ibiza is a small beautiful Balearic island in the Mediterranean sea, but it is better known by those who look forward to put a foot on it for being a paradise of sex, drugs, and dance music. And in a paradise of debauchery like that, disk jockeys are the gurus, both in selected clubs and hidden raves. Disk jockeys that today might be at the top, but tomorrow might be at the bottom, as volatile as that might sound.
Frankie Wilde (Paul Kaye) is one of the best disk jockeys in the world. He survives in Ibiza, where he is equally admired by both colleagues and crowds. Alcohol, drugs, women, and riding disks, that is pretty much all he needs to worry about. At least, it is until the day he starts going deaf. Have you heard about a deaf disk jockey? Neither have I.
Michael Dowse’s is not a fake documentary in the way, for example, this is spinal tap (1984) was, even though there are many connections, even subtle homages, with Rob Reiner’s cinematographic debut. it’s all gone pete tong is a fake biopic with scattered fake interviews that will pleased dance music lovers the way this is spinal tap pleased hard rock lovers. It is made for those who shared their emancipation with dance music, and substitutes, in the late nineties.
Dowse’s ingredients are the ones you should expect in a dish like this. Dance music makes the movie flow from one shot to the other. He dares to break the screen in half to let Frankie link different tracks, and even throws in schizophrenic shots. Colorful, as colorful as you might expect a high experience like this to be, but nothing new, if you ask me. Most of what is shown remind me of previous approaches, like the one from trainspotting (1996), for example. On the other hand, beautiful Ibiza is not that well portrayed by the Canadian director.
Paul Kaye is as good or as bad as you want him to be. Why would I say something like this? I tend to think high characters are easy to play as long as you have been high a couple of times and realized that different colors apply to different people. Thus, Kaye is as good as anyone else. Nevertheless, when he is not high he is not as tormented as Dowse wants us to believe.
The experience is fun as long as you can put up with dance music and platitudes about Ibiza. By the way, Pete Tong is a BBC radio disk jockey that shows up briefly as himself.
For the deadhours of those who know what Ibiza is really about.
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