March 6, 2026 • 7 mins
Sirāt
Luis is traveling through southern Morocco with his son, Esteban. They're searching for his daughter, who has been missing for five months, last seen at a dance festival in the desert. As the pair travel from party to party, they hear of a semi-mythical rave near the border of Mauritania. Descending into the scorched terrain as a not-so-distant global conflict encroaches, Luis and Esteban are soon drawn into a primal landscape in which they must walk a tightrope between heaven and hell.
Tenor: My Name is Pati
The story of Pene Pati and his brother Amitai Pati's journey from Samoa to platinum-selling success in the trio Sol3 Mio, and the world's great opera stages.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame podcast
from News Talks at Bell Night.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Talk to you, cube oscride through and shoes come through
my home.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
And I sound like, oh.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
This is Leaven. Remember she was our album of the
week we well ago, maybe end of last year. Anyway,
she's Icelandic. She's kind of got a captivating sound. Ais
just like her little blend of jazz and classical and
fuse songs and show tunes in there as well. Anyway,
she's announced she's coming to New Zealand. She's got a
special show at Auckland Spark Arena in August. So it's
(00:50):
great news. Twenty one minutes to teen on News Talks,
he'd be Francesca Rudkin as our film reviewers. He's here
with us this morning and killed her morning. Two films
to work through this morning, two very different sounding films,
So let's start off with one that is showing in cinemas.
Tell us about Syrup.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Okay, so I saw this this week and I was
so taken back, but I have to talk about this film.
It is an arthouse film by director called Oliver Luxey.
He is a regular attendee at the can Film Festival
and a regular when this particular film, there was a
lot of height when it came out that you know,
this would be an art house kind of crossover it
(01:30):
of the year, and everybody's been talking about it. It
did screen on the New Zealand International Film Festival.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
What it is finally now back on general belise here
in New Zealand at our cinemas, just in time for
the Oscars, because it does have a handful of Oscar nominations,
including Best International Feature, So.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
You might've heard about it. It is a existential, slow
burning road trip fi thriller that kind of explores how
we all sort of stumbles through life accepting what comes
our way until we're sort of faced with death or
in their death experience, and the director wants to to
(02:06):
take us on this journey through a group of lifelong ravers.
So it also sort of takes a look at rave culture.
And you know, essentially, Jack, we've all been dancing for centuries.
We have been dancing to feel something, release something, process something,
avoid something, celebrate something. You know, dancing is this way
(02:26):
of just being able to get to sort of get
to the bottom of who you truly are. And so
the director is also really keen to kind of look
at this culture. And so the film starts off with
this rave and the Moroccan desert, and it's really lovely.
It's beautiful, it's mesmerizing, the music's incredible. You just get
caught up in the visuals and the techno and it's
(02:47):
incredibly authentic. And it's authentic because this director loves to
work with non professional actors and he got a whole
lot of lifelong ravers who travel from all over Europe
who came for this shoot. They basically said, you need
to play music for three days and will come, and
so he did, and so we start there, but we
meet these two people who are very much out of place,
the father and his son, and they're looking for The
(03:08):
father is looking for his daughter, who disappeared six months ago,
and we don't we don't know why she's disappeared. We
don't know whether she left home, she ran away, she
left time voluntarily. We don't know how they've lost touch,
We don't know anything about their relationship. But actually, it
is a bit of an issue with this film that
a lot of a characters are never put into context,
and they are so fascinating and so interesting you want
(03:29):
to know more about them, but it's about looking forward
at what happens next. What happens next is that there
is a conflict hepening in a neighborhood, neighboring country, we
don't know which. The army comes, breaks up the rave.
Everybody sort of disappears, gets in their trucks, in their
vans and their house buses and starts disappearing. And at
this point a group of ravers sort of take off
down down another road to get out of the mix
(03:51):
and to go off and to find the next rave,
and this father and son join them, and they end
off going on this journey through the desert where they
really do face the worst that can be thrown at
someone in life. That happened through this film. You think,
where is this going? What's it about? And then there
is an event that happens which is absolutely shocking and
kind of jolts you out of this sort of this lovely,
(04:12):
sort of mesmerizing sort of calmness you found yourself in.
And then the tension just ramps up and builds and
builds and bills to the end of the film. You're
gonna love it, You're gonna hate it. It is a
visual and audio feast. It's kind of that's what it's
all about. It's those two things come together to take
you on this journey. It's really interesting and definitely stays
(04:35):
in your mind for a few days after you've seen it.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Right, Yeah, I like that. I mean, obviously it's affected you.
I mean yeah, so, and there's always a good sign
of it, you know, good piece of art.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
I found it narratively maybe a little bit unsatisfying, but
I gave into it, and I'm just going to go
along the ride here and see where this ends. Sure,
and yeah, and so not perfect, but it sure is interesting.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Cool. Okay, So that's Serrat. That's showing in cinemas at
the moment. Next up, something completely different, also showing in cinemas.
Let's have a listened to tenor My Name is Party.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
The very first second I heard that voice. Listen why
he is one of.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
The best Stanner of his generation.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
The music was everywhere growing up.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Family is everything, fathers singing opera.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Is there a competition?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Nope? But this is the second place. Feel like it's
the story of pen a party, of course, an Amati
party in their journey from samour to platinum selling success
in solo meal.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
This is a wonderful documentary. Pena Party is actually going
to join me at ten am tomorrow morning on the
Sunday session. I do encourage people to listen. He is
such a gorgeous man, but his journey, of his journey
and amatized journey is incredible. I mean, what, what are
the chances that you would have two world famous tenors
in your family? Yeah, you know some more Mangy, you
(06:05):
know New Zealand. They and I think what I really
enjoyed about this documentary. Yes, you see their upbringing.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
And you hear about their family and behind.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
The scenes and how hard they've worked, but you get
a little bit of a glimpse into what happened when
they created the band Solomeo, which we all love and
you know is so hugely popular. It was created to
raise money to help them go and train overseas. It
became massive, right they didn't intend it to do. And
then there was this huge pressure that pen I felt
(06:35):
to keep going with the band because it was allowing
his family to other people to have access to this training.
And everyone in the opera world said, you are ruining
your career. This is ruining your career, and he had
to make huge decisions and then he had to try
and climb back into the opera world. You see the
incredible work that goes on behind the scenes. The work
(06:55):
ethic is extraordinary, and not just to get there, but
then to stay there. So all that behind the scenes
information and just watching the footage of him performing on
stage around the world at some of the biggest operassay fantastic.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Okay, really looking forward to seeing the end to your
interview tomorrow morning. So that's tenor my name is Party,
Penny Party on the Sunday session tomorrow morning with Francesca.
Frank's first film for us this morning was sid Rat
and both of those films all the details will be
up at newstalk SHADB dot co dot zeed For.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
More from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame. Listen live to
news Talks hed B from nine am Saturday, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio.
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame podcast
from News Talks at Bell Night.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Talk to you, cube oscride through and shoes come through
my home.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
And I sound like, oh.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
This is Leaven. Remember she was our album of the
week we well ago, maybe end of last year. Anyway,
she's Icelandic. She's kind of got a captivating sound. Ais
just like her little blend of jazz and classical and
fuse songs and show tunes in there as well. Anyway,
she's announced she's coming to New Zealand. She's got a
special show at Auckland Spark Arena in August. So it's
(00:50):
great news. Twenty one minutes to teen on News Talks,
he'd be Francesca Rudkin as our film reviewers. He's here
with us this morning and killed her morning. Two films
to work through this morning, two very different sounding films,
So let's start off with one that is showing in cinemas.
Tell us about Syrup.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Okay, so I saw this this week and I was
so taken back, but I have to talk about this film.
It is an arthouse film by director called Oliver Luxey.
He is a regular attendee at the can Film Festival
and a regular when this particular film, there was a
lot of height when it came out that you know,
this would be an art house kind of crossover it
(01:30):
of the year, and everybody's been talking about it. It
did screen on the New Zealand International Film Festival.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
What it is finally now back on general belise here
in New Zealand at our cinemas, just in time for
the Oscars, because it does have a handful of Oscar nominations,
including Best International Feature, So.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
You might've heard about it. It is a existential, slow
burning road trip fi thriller that kind of explores how
we all sort of stumbles through life accepting what comes
our way until we're sort of faced with death or
in their death experience, and the director wants to to
(02:06):
take us on this journey through a group of lifelong ravers.
So it also sort of takes a look at rave culture.
And you know, essentially, Jack, we've all been dancing for centuries.
We have been dancing to feel something, release something, process something,
avoid something, celebrate something. You know, dancing is this way
(02:26):
of just being able to get to sort of get
to the bottom of who you truly are. And so
the director is also really keen to kind of look
at this culture. And so the film starts off with
this rave and the Moroccan desert, and it's really lovely.
It's beautiful, it's mesmerizing, the music's incredible. You just get
caught up in the visuals and the techno and it's
(02:47):
incredibly authentic. And it's authentic because this director loves to
work with non professional actors and he got a whole
lot of lifelong ravers who travel from all over Europe
who came for this shoot. They basically said, you need
to play music for three days and will come, and
so he did, and so we start there, but we
meet these two people who are very much out of place,
the father and his son, and they're looking for The
(03:08):
father is looking for his daughter, who disappeared six months ago,
and we don't we don't know why she's disappeared. We
don't know whether she left home, she ran away, she
left time voluntarily. We don't know how they've lost touch,
We don't know anything about their relationship. But actually, it
is a bit of an issue with this film that
a lot of a characters are never put into context,
and they are so fascinating and so interesting you want
(03:29):
to know more about them, but it's about looking forward
at what happens next. What happens next is that there
is a conflict hepening in a neighborhood, neighboring country, we
don't know which. The army comes, breaks up the rave.
Everybody sort of disappears, gets in their trucks, in their
vans and their house buses and starts disappearing. And at
this point a group of ravers sort of take off
down down another road to get out of the mix
(03:51):
and to go off and to find the next rave,
and this father and son join them, and they end
off going on this journey through the desert where they
really do face the worst that can be thrown at
someone in life. That happened through this film. You think,
where is this going? What's it about? And then there
is an event that happens which is absolutely shocking and
kind of jolts you out of this sort of this lovely,
(04:12):
sort of mesmerizing sort of calmness you found yourself in.
And then the tension just ramps up and builds and
builds and bills to the end of the film. You're
gonna love it, You're gonna hate it. It is a
visual and audio feast. It's kind of that's what it's
all about. It's those two things come together to take
you on this journey. It's really interesting and definitely stays
(04:35):
in your mind for a few days after you've seen it.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Right, Yeah, I like that. I mean, obviously it's affected you.
I mean yeah, so, and there's always a good sign
of it, you know, good piece of art.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
I found it narratively maybe a little bit unsatisfying, but
I gave into it, and I'm just going to go
along the ride here and see where this ends. Sure,
and yeah, and so not perfect, but it sure is interesting.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Cool. Okay, So that's Serrat. That's showing in cinemas at
the moment. Next up, something completely different, also showing in cinemas.
Let's have a listened to tenor My Name is Party.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
The very first second I heard that voice. Listen why
he is one of.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
The best Stanner of his generation.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
The music was everywhere growing up.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Family is everything, fathers singing opera.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Is there a competition?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Nope? But this is the second place. Feel like it's
the story of pen a party, of course, an Amati
party in their journey from samour to platinum selling success
in solo meal.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
This is a wonderful documentary. Pena Party is actually going
to join me at ten am tomorrow morning on the
Sunday session. I do encourage people to listen. He is
such a gorgeous man, but his journey, of his journey
and amatized journey is incredible. I mean, what, what are
the chances that you would have two world famous tenors
in your family? Yeah, you know some more Mangy, you
(06:05):
know New Zealand. They and I think what I really
enjoyed about this documentary. Yes, you see their upbringing.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
And you hear about their family and behind.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
The scenes and how hard they've worked, but you get
a little bit of a glimpse into what happened when
they created the band Solomeo, which we all love and
you know is so hugely popular. It was created to
raise money to help them go and train overseas. It
became massive, right they didn't intend it to do. And
then there was this huge pressure that pen I felt
(06:35):
to keep going with the band because it was allowing
his family to other people to have access to this training.
And everyone in the opera world said, you are ruining
your career. This is ruining your career, and he had
to make huge decisions and then he had to try
and climb back into the opera world. You see the
incredible work that goes on behind the scenes. The work
(06:55):
ethic is extraordinary, and not just to get there, but
then to stay there. So all that behind the scenes
information and just watching the footage of him performing on
stage around the world at some of the biggest operassay fantastic.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Okay, really looking forward to seeing the end to your
interview tomorrow morning. So that's tenor my name is Party,
Penny Party on the Sunday session tomorrow morning with Francesca.
Frank's first film for us this morning was sid Rat
and both of those films all the details will be
up at newstalk SHADB dot co dot zeed For.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
More from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame. Listen live to
news Talks hed B from nine am Saturday, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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