Last updated on May 16, 2025
A film by Oliver Laxe
With: Sergi López, Bruno Núñez, Richard Bellamyun, Stefania Gadda, Joshua Liam Herderson, Tonin Javier, Jade Ouki
A father, accompanied by his son, goes looking for his missing daughter in North Africa.
Our rate: ***(*)
His previous film O que arde was already based on the hypnotic effect of beautiful images, when the elements overtake the human quest. With Sirat, Oliver Laxe pushes the envelope three notches further, to great effect. The trip he invites us to follow – we could call it a truck electro movie – takes us back to Mad Max and Red Desert, the Wages of Fear. A beautiful, artistic, experimental whole, beating to the rhythm of the beats of techno music, wild and infectious. We enter a community with the character played by Sergi Lopez, almost by breaking in, and head out into the desert with her, on a perilous journey that no one knows exactly where it leads, except that it’s an attempt to escape from the world, from the third world war that’s beginning. In certain respects, Sirat takes an ethnological look at the community, and plays on certain springs so that the viewer himself gets to know this community, the codes that bind it together, the quest that drives them. The search for the ultimate trip, for one last dance, rubs shoulders with the search for a missing daughter, whom the desperate father tries to find out of utopia. The two utopias clash with the prevailing dystopia. All in all, a mysterious, bewitching, disturbing, almost mythological odyssey, constantly surprising. We only regret a few (albeit well-felt) inserts of humor, which at times dampen the fascination exerted, but with Sirat, Laxe has undoubtedly created a film that counts.
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