Disco, Ibiza, Locomía
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Warm, kinetic, measured drama / music, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →In the effervescent Spain of the 80s, Xavi Font, an artistic misfit, together with his friend Lurdes Iribar and her lover Manolo Arjona, founds Locomía. Although he achieves success, he also experiences the dark reality of the industry at the hands of powerful producer José Luís Gil.
Our read · Disco, Ibiza, Locomía (2024) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive drama · music entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of Disco, Ibiza, Locomía
What watching it is actually like.
“You want an 80s Spanish music biopic about fame, excess, and queer creativity.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if rise-and-fall music stories or heavy partying bore or trigger you.
The reading.
Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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