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With No Name.” Anyway, if you want to give it a those who seem out of place and pure fiction, such
name (apart from the association it evokes with a as the nonconformist Luis (magnificent Sergi
drug), go ahead, and I'm sure the lyricist, who Lopez) and his son Esteban (Brúno Nuñez), both
always denied it was about heroin, won't mind. I desperately searching for their daughter and sister
also thought about my personal experience, for who disappeared at some party, in some crazy
example, in the desert surrounding the historic situation, in some part of the desert, in a hidden
city of Yazd (Iran). I can assure you that the corner of the world, are not really mythological
contrast between the colour, the mastery of characters or larger than life, but rather flesh and
architectural specificity, the exuberance of a blood beings like the “anarchists” that Luis and
thousand-year-old adobe urbanisation (which tells Esteban will follow in a diversionary manoeuvre
us a lot about the level of civilisation achieved and that at first seemed unlikely and was intended to
recognised as a UNESCO World Heritage Site), and get around the military siege mentioned earlier. A
the overwhelming and mind-boggling aridity of risky detour, but with the vague aim of heading for
the desert itself, which takes us back to the dawn another rave where the young Mar, of whom we
of humanity, makes us experience, as do the only know a handful of photographs, might be. A
protagonists of «Sirât», the two sides of our change of direction where, kilometre after
existence. The A side and the B side of our fragility kilometre, progress seems to consist of a difficult
and vulnerability as mere mortals. In short, the series of expedient measures that, at a certain
real dimension of our human condition. If you are point, with some inevitability (underlined by an
planning an alternative vacation, consider taking a unexpected accident), seem to point to the
trip across the Mediterranean to the places where prospect of a journey without direction and
«Sirât» was filmed. You don't need to go any without return. During this odyssey, father and
further. But first watch the film and notice how son will learn the art of survival firsthand. And
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