Sirât
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The Music Guides the Way: Oliver Laxe and Gaspar Noé Discuss “Sirāt”
When Oliver Laxe’s Sirāt premiered at Cannes this year, it caught both those familiar with his work as well as new viewers off guard; that the film takes an unexpected turn in its second half is only part of its disorienting effect. Where his first three, score-free features defaulted to the quiet and contemplative, Sirāt is nearly an action movie and accordingly nerve-wracking, increasingly suspenseful and—thanks in large part to Kangding Ray’s excellent electronic score—sometimes so deafeningly loud that it’s been known to literally make projection booths shake. With a larger budget and longer schedule than Laxe has had before, […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Dec 22, 2025 -
Existential Rave: Kangding Ray on Scoring “Sirāt”
Few recent films have offered such an overwhelmingly immersive audiovisual experience as Oliver Laxe’s Sirāt. It’s no coincidence that the first shots of the film show tough-looking tech guys assembling an intimidatingly huge sound system on a remote and desolate location, as music is a major driving force behind this cinematic trip. The fourth film by the French-Spanish director (Mimosas, Fire Will Come) begins at a psychedelic rave before embarking on a treacherous journey into the Moroccan desert. The highly unusual score is not only notable for its rough-sounding tribal techno, which will surely deliver a massive stress test to […]
by Hugo Emmerzael on Oct 16, 2025 -
Cannes 2025: Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning; Eddington; Sirât
Eight years after Cannes dipped its toes into VR waters with their presentation of Alejandro González Iñárritu‘s ultra-haptic empathy machine Carne y Arena (2017), the festival’s general delegate Thierry Frémaux continues to promote cinema’s expanding XR toolbox. In addition to bringing back the festival’s Immersive Competition for a second year—from what I saw of the press tour held a few hours before the Opening Ceremony, it would be difficult to justify a third—Frémaux also, per an interview with Screen International, trained this year’s festival staff using an AI version of his own voice when he couldn’t be present to address them […]
by Blake Williams on May 18, 2025
