What if the demand for the Balearic Islands by British tourists was because they felt an almost shamanic appeal for the sun and the need to live according to the sun? This film captures the (very real) phenomenon of jumping from balconies to swimming pools to imagine a bizarre and dreamlike world.
There is one scene in La herida luminosa where several british teenagers say goodbye to Mallorca by singing with their red skin like it’s a solemn anthem of farewell to the sun. They carry in their sunburned bodies the sun itself and they take it with them to their grey land. A film about the inability to describe an emotion or a moment in time that is gone and will not come back. Christian Avilés makes a daydream-film where he does not have to describe to us what is indescribable, he makes us feel the heat of the sun and its light through cinema. (Rui Mendes)