‘Sirat’ Review: Oliver Laxe’s Excruciatingly Tense, Escalatingly Insane Road Trip Through a Desert Purgatory

‘Sirat’ Review: Oliver Laxe’s Excruciatingly Tense, Escalatingly Insane Road Trip Through a Desert Purgatory

Oliver Laxe graduates to Cannes competition with a brilliantly bizarre, cult-ready vision of human psychology tested to its limits.

‘Sirat’ Review: Oliver Laxe Brings Sound And Fury To A Mythic Story Of Family And Loss – Cannes Film Festival

French-Spanish director Óliver Laxe makes his debut in Competition with a film that arguably would be better placed in one of the festival’s Midnight slots. Part existential road movie, part apocalyptic sci-fi, it’s a puzzling mix of Zabriskie Point and Fury Road that starts with a bang but ends in a curiously minor key. Some […]

The director of O que arde, who won in the section Un certain Regard, returns to the French festival in the official section to competition with a proposal as radical and deep as surprising, clear and risky Read

Cannes 2025: Óliver Laxe's 'Sirat' - A Techno-Filled Desert Odyssey

One of the most exciting discoveries from the 2025 Cannes Film Festival (so far) is a film titled Sirat, made by Spanish-French filmmaker Óliver Laxe. I've been posting trailers for it already leading up to the start of the festival, but it really is all about the experience watching this and discovering where it's taking us on its journey through the desert. Cinema reigns!! What an unforgettable experience watching this together with the packed…

‘Sirât’ review: Oliver Laxe’s long strange trip stars Sergi López

Fraught trek across the desert in search of missing daughter is a cinematic risk for French-Spanish auteur