Mimosas
Oliver Laxe’s mesmerizing, minimalist ‘Eastern western’ follows a caravan transporting the body of a sheik to his remote resting place in the perilous wilderness of the Moroccan desert.
His last wish is to be buried with his loved ones. But death does not wait. The caravaneers, fearful of the mountain pass, refuse to continue transporting the corpse. Ahmed and Said, two rogues traveling with the caravan, promise to take the body to its destiny. But do they really know the way?
In another world, parallel and remote, Shakib is chosen to travel to the mountains where the caravan is. His assignment is clear: he has to help the improvised caravaneers to reach their destination. Inspired in part by the director's itinerant travels and his immersion in Sufism, MIMOSAS is by turns heady and epiphanic as it explores cinema’s possibilities of representing the ineffable. Director Oliver Laxe deftly maintains his film’s many enigmas, the work's near-parabolic form suggesting life’s diverse and mystical paths, the measures of belief, and the potential for encounters with the divine.