Sirat
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Director: Oliver Laxe
2025 / 115min / DCP
Its title a reference to the Islamic term for the narrow bridge that one crosses over hell en route to paradise, Laxe’s sun-bleached survivalist white-knuckler—joint winner of the Jury Prize at the most recent Cannes Film Festival, and the Spanish entry for the 98th Academy Awards—is a film of ecstasy and purgatory, of physical trials and spiritual elevation. It follows the middle-aged Luis (Sergi López) as he arrives in Morocco, his young son and pet dog in tow, to follow the trail of his adult daughter, now five months missing, whom he fears has joined an acid-fried band of roving sybarites who’ve plunged into the desert in search of a fabled rave. A persistent techno score by Kanding Ray (awarded Best Soundtrack at Cannes), alternately trancelike and urgent, combines with the majestic aridity of the landscape to imbue Sirāt with a sense of apocalyptic augury, delivered upon in its explosive and unforeseeable plot twists.
A NEON release
Q&A with director Oliver Laxe moderated by film critic David Rooney on Friday, December 5th
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