CANNES, France (AP) — “Is this what the end of the world feels like?”
So asks a character in one of the most-talked about films of the 78th Cannes Film Festival: Oliver Laxe’s “Sirât,” a Moroccan desert road trip through, we come to learn, a World War III purgatory.
It’s well into “Sirât,” a kind of combination of “Mad Max” and “The Wages of Fear,” that that reality begins to sink in. Our main characters — Luis (Sergi López) and his son Esteban (Brúno Nuñez) — have come to a desert rave in search of Luis’ missing daughter. When the authorities break it up, they join up with a bohemian troupe
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