Sirât

dir. Oliver Laxe

“I’m a filmmaker who is looking for transcendence. That’s what we want, this kind of ecstatic rapture.” - Oliver Laxe

An ecstatic experience at the cinema is always the ideal here at ECSTATIC Screen Notes, and the use of that term as a guiding light through the darkness comes from a few different places. One of the more familiar touchstones for cinephile…