Going Inside the Music of ‘Sirât’: Radical, Experimental – and Maybe Even Comical?

It doesn’t make any sense. In a climactic moment of Oliver Laxe’s harrowing Spanish film “Sirât,” a group of ragtag survivors find themselves in the open desert in Northern Africa, grieving for the losses they’ve endured and facing a world that may be on the brink of collapse. As one of them walks across the sand, they suddenly discover that they’re not in a desert wasteland; instead, they’re in the middle of a live minefield.  

While the characters navigate the terrain, acutely aware that every step could be their last...