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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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