The Sentimental Engine SlayerGrammy Award-winning Omar Rodriguez Lopez, of The Mars Volta and At the Drive In fame, brings a singular auteurist vision to his electrifying feature debut.
Barlam (Rodriguez Lopez) is a twenty-something loner cruising the streets of suburban El Paso, building model '67 Mercury Cougar replica cars and making the overdue but difficult transition into adulthood.
As his daily interactions become increasingly strange (and strained), the plot thickens and twists; leaving Balam and the audience to decipher where reality ends and fantasy begins.
With a striking original score and startling images, lensed through the dusty, drug-addled haze of El Paso, The Sentimental Engine Slayer is an evocative cinematic experience and confirms Rodriguez Lopez as a new filmic force to be reckoned with.
"A piercingly clear pronouncement that a rare and riveting voice has emerged for independent American cinema" Tribeca Film Festival
