Genre: Documentary
Runtime: 97 minutes
Year: 2019
Starring: Billy MacFarland, Ja Rule, Gabriella Bluestone, Shiyuan Deng, Michael Ciccarelli, Mdavid Low, Samuel Krost, Andy King, Marc Weinstein
Description: An exclusive behind the scenes look at the infamous unrveling of the Fyre music festival.
Review: We follow the true story of a gigantic music festival that turned out the be the biggest disaster.
In 2012 the movie “Project X” was released, where a college party turns into chaos. Imagine this: a similar situation, but then on a bigger scale with a budget of ten millions of dollars on a ‘deserted island’ near the Bahamas. This documentary shows us what went on with the Fyre Festival, that had to take place in 2017.
The documentary has three parts: the way to the festival, what went wrong and the consequences.
The promovideo of the Fyre festival is gorgeous. Famous models like Bella Hadid and Hailey Baldwin walking around in bikinis, artists such as major Lazer are advertise to attend and there would be villas for the guests. The reality: the models where simple a publicity stunt, the artists were never payed and guests had to sleep in tents.
They started too late with all the preparations and every sign showed organizer Billy MacFarland that the festival would never be ready in time. Attendees paid thousands of dollars to be there. Private jets turned out to be old little crowded planes, villas weren’t even present and became tents with wet matrasses and over 500 people didn’t even have a place to stay. There was no food or water and no charter planes booked for the guest to travel back. And no festival, because there were no artists.
“Fyre” shows us how an arrogant entrepreneur lies, betrays and commits fraude to make this ‘dream’ come true. It’s a fascinating look behind the scenes of one of the biggest projects that went horribly wrong.
Rating: 4/ 5
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