2019 · documentary
Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened
Directed by Chris Smith1h 38m2019
He promised supermodels and yachts, but delivered tents and cheese sandwiches. How one man engineered a music festival disaster.
Our read: Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened (2019) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded documentary entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Neutral, steady, gentle documentary, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
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“You want a brisk schadenfreude doc about influencer fraud and island disaster.”
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