Cannes 2025: óliver laxe’s “ sirat ” – The desert odyssey filled with techno
by Alex Billington
May 16, 2025
One of the most exciting discoveries of 2025 Cannes Film Festival (so far) is a film entitled SyrupMade by the Spanish French filmmaker Oliver Lax. I published trailers that have already led at the start of the festival, but it is really the experience of looking at this and discovering where it takes us on his trip through the desert. Reigns cinema !! What an unforgettable experience to look at this with the house packed with moviegoers during the projection of the press Thursday evening. Everyone has come out of the projection by delusional on this subject, everyone has something to say about this – it’s the kind of Cannes Cannes moments for which I live. Syrup is great. This is what cinematographic narration is. It is a giant metaphor, of course, but it can also be considered a literal journey through this hell of the desert. And the shock and the fear of discovering what is happening when you watch it for the first time is essential to the experience of understanding the film. And, by extension, understand life – shock and fear of never knowing what will happen in life.
Syrup Does the fourth feature film by óliver Laxe is so far, following You are all captains (2010), Mimosas (2016), and Fire will come (2019). The title Syrup is a reference to a religious concept of Islam (Such as) – It is the bridge with a razor by which all those who enter paradise must pass. It is the gap between heaven and hell. This is the path you have to follow in life to enter paradise (or paradise). While at the beginning, it may seem that this title is abstract in relation to this story of a father in search of his daughter raver disappeared, at the end of the film, you will understand exactly what it means and why the film is called Syrup. Spanish actor Sergi López Play Luis, a father from Spain who is in Morocco with his son looking for his eldest daughter. She has been missing for five months and she was told that she could be found in the rave scene of the desert in Morocco. The whole film takes place in the Moroccan desert. Initially during one of the praise of the techno with the box and the dance, then later in increasingly sterile places as he joins a troop of birthdays en route to the next rave. Somewhere. As they roll along the dusty, dangerous and winding roads trying to escape the Moroccan authorities, the radio and television clips speak of war and apocalypse. But they have a mission – to find it And Find the next party – they go.
Everything I mean about the film will now reveal what it really is. If you want to stay fresh and enter to look at this without any idea where he is heading – don’t read the rest. Syrup Do not really concern the Moroccan scene Rave, although it captures this scene with a booming and enchanting techno soundtrack (I need the full album right now). Luis, his son Esteban, and the group of parties he follows are all stuck in a sort of purgatory and this Moroccan desert is the beginning of the beyond. In the classic science fiction novel, Dune, Syrup is described as “paradise to my right, hell on my left and the angel of death behind”. This is exactly how he drives in this desert. There is a lot to analyze and contemplate the idea of the film, including the rave at the beginning could be the end of the world. When some of the “shit” scenes start to occur later, the concept of Such as becomes clearer, because the film represents it in its astonishing manner the dangers and challenges which must be faced when they travel through life and hope to enter the sky at the end of all this. But there is a long way to go, and it is not easy to get there safely, but Luis tries anyway. And my God, they go through hell, but Luis keeps the best he can, he never abandons his faith.
Óliver lax Syrup is an odyssey of the desert filled with techno that will leave everyone out of breath. A must look For all moviegoers. I love a good “WTF will happen next?!” First experience. The techno score in this (by Kangding department) is exceptional and people will delirious And Review from now in years. Syrup will stir something inside you, grasp and let yourself be impressed on the way to Vallah. Cinema to his best.
Alex’s Cannes 2025 note: 9 out of 10
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