The Sentimental Engine Slayer
MovieTitle | The Sentimental Engine Slayer |
User score | 5.3 |
Release date | Apr 22, 2010 |
Genre | Drama |
Director | Omar Rodríguez-López |
Production country | United States of America |
Production companies | Rodriguez Lopez Productions |
Run time | 97 min. |
Barlam (Omar Rodriguez-Lopez) struggles to find himself as he bags groceries, has a semi-incestuous relationship with his sister and attempts to understand his parents' long-ago divorce. Events spiral out of control when he becomes obsessed with a boy who looks like him. Rodriguez-Lopez, a songwriter/guitarist for rock band The Mars Volta, writes and directs this drama that had its North American premiere at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival.