His Film Is Spain’s Submission to the Oscars. He’s Not Sure How Spanish It Is.
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Spanish cinema has entered a new and more diverse era, film experts say. Oliver Laxe, the director of Oscar-nominated “Sirat,” embodies the shift.
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This year, Mr. Laxe has been the face of the Spanish cinema abroad. From Galicia in northwest Spain, he cuts a biblical figure with long, flowing hair, a beard and a basketball player’s height. The gut-wrenching plot twists of his film “Sirat,” which features ravers chasing beats through a desert minefield, have made it the year’s love-it-or-hate-it-but-got-to-see-it film in Spain. Coupled with Mr. Laxe’s taste for deep thoughts and circuitous sentences, the film has made him a lightning rod, teased in countless Instagram memes, some of which he thought were funny.
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