Film · 2015 · Angelina Jolie
By the Sea filming locations in Malta
By the Sea (2015), written and directed by Angelina Jolie, who starred in it with Brad Pitt, was filmed in Gozo from August to November 2014, with a 1970s French seaside hotel built at Mġarr ix-Xini bay.
Where was By the Sea filmed in Malta?
Jolie's slow-burning marriage drama is set in a quiet resort on the 1970s French coast, but it was shot almost entirely on Gozo between 19 August and 10 November 2014. The production built its hotel, a seaside café and a small shop at Mġarr ix-Xini, a narrow fjord-like inlet near Xewkija and Sannat, which Prime Minister Joseph Muscat announced as the film's location. Other scenes use Gozo's back roads, villages and a restaurant near Xagħra.
Scene by scene
- By the SeaThe hotel where Vanessa and Roland stay, plus a seaside café and shop, were built around the inlet; most of the film was shot here — played A resort on the 1970s French coastMġarr ix-Xini →
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The exact spot and camera angle for every By the Sea scene in Malta.