Carlos Boyero dedicates his criticism this week to the last work of Oliver Laxe, to Sirât. The film, which has received the jury award in Cannes has managed to hypnotize the film critic: “Everything sounds to me really in this movie. And if it were not to continue hypnotized. It is strange in the best sense. It has visual and auditory power.” And that admits that the previous work of this director, What burnshe bored “markedly.”
What Boyero does not understand is the reason why in this film, a child has to accompany his father to look for his missing sister in what qualifies as “dangerous adventure”: “Didn’t he have who left him before facing the risk? Surely in social services they would offer him temporary refuge.” And this is the film, the search for a person whose suspected family is in some rave of the Moroccan desert.
But the critic goes from fear of fare and admits that throughout the footage is inside the film: “The fascination with the visual power of what the screen transmits, the sounds becomes a symphony is taken over, I do not distract me at any time.” A fascination that remains once has ended, that absent from reality and that makes him sing a “mission fulfilled.” And yes, the calamities that occur during the plot are disturbed and confesses that the atmosphere hooks.
In his article, Boyero also emphasizes that Exception of Sergi López, there are no professional interpreters in Sirât: “Apparently they interpret themselves; the camera films a lifestyle.” In addition, it focuses on the absence of makeup and special effects in a universe that qualifies as “very punk, although stripped of violence.”
Here you can read the full Boyero article, Sirât: Hypnotic images and sounds that leave me hung. In addition, you can consult the other film criticisms of El País week in this link.