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Neon Buys Oliver Laxe‘s Immersive Road Adventure ‘Sirât’ Following Cannes Debut (EXCLUSIVE)
Neon has bought Oliver Laxe‘s twisty road adventure 'Sirât' following its Cannes Film Festival debut.
Neon has bought North American rights to Oliver Laxe ‘s “Sirât” following its critically acclaimed debut at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. It has been a busy festival for the distributor, which acquired North American rights to Kleber Mendonça Filho‘s “The Secret Agent” and Jafar Panahi’s “It Was Just an Accident,” both of which are in competition. Reviewers embraced the picture’s twists and turns, with Variety ‘s Jessica Kiang hailing Laxe’s “thrilling directorial confidence” and calling the film a “brilliantly bizarre, cult-ready vision of human psychology tested to its limits.”
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