It's All Gone Pete Tong

It's All Gone Pete Tong (2004) is a Canadian-British mockumentary comedy you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Michael Dowse and led by Paul Kaye in a performance that does most of the heavy lifting.

Frankie Wilde is Ibiza's top DJ — the kind whose name is on every flyer and whose lifestyle reads like a checklist of excess. Then the hearing starts to go. Then it's gone completely. The film is shot as a fake documentary: talking-head interviews with Frankie's entourage, shaky archival footage, and Pete Tong himself appearing as a bemused commentator on the whole disaster.

What makes it work is that Dowse plays it completely straight. There are no winks at the camera, no easy recovery arc, and no obvious moral being delivered. Frankie is ridiculous and recognisable in equal measure. It's a stranger film than the premise suggests, and one of the more honest things committed to screen about what a music career looks like from the inside out. Stream It's All Gone Pete Tong (2004) on iFILM.