Nothing quite prepared us for Óliver Laxe’s Sirāt when it came out last year.
The French-born Spanish director had already shown viewers that he was one of the boldest European voices in cinema with the mystical Mimosas (2016) and the arresting O que arde (Fire Will Come - 2019). But Sirāt is something else. You go to the cinema to be entertained, provoked, enraptured or even rattled, but rarely do you encounter a film that leaves you feeling all those things at once.
