The singer-songwriter Joan Manuel Serrat plays the role of a young fisherman named Joan from Ibiza (Eivissa) who falls hopelessly in love about a beautiful English tourist and it leaves everything to follow her to London, where he is introduced to the hippie world.
Acting
Serrat's genuine musician vulnerability, not trained actor polish.
Cinematography
Ibiza's crystalline blues vs. London's grimy psychedelic murk.
Score
Serrat's own songs become the film's aching backbone.
Director
Francisco Rovira Beleta
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rovira Beleta was already Oscar-nominated; this was his attempt to capture the counterculture he didn't understand, making Joan's alienation accidentally meta.
Serrat was already Spain's biggest folk star—casting him as a naive fisherman was irony lost on international audiences. The film bombed so hard he barely acted again.
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