With Sirāt, you’re waiting for the beat to drop. It’s a film set within the rave scene that’s also constructed like an EDM track, the suspended, thwomp-thwomp tension of Kangding Ray’s score ruling over extended pans of writhing bodies out in the Moroccan desert. But what’s eventually released never feels all that satisfying.
Luis (Sergi López) sheepishly winds his way between the dancers, with his son Estebán (Bruno Nuñez) and terrier Pipa in tow – the only two people (and one dog) seemingly not under the music’s spell. He’s the sort of guy who, ordinarily, would happily keep to himself (it’s certainly a world away from López’s most well-known role, as the violent, fascistic Captain Vidal in Pan’s Labyrinth).
