The Mars Volta / On the Drive-In documentary, Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Will get Bizarre, is receiving a theatrical launch on November twentieth, and an prolonged trailer might be streamed now.
The Nicolas Jack Davies-directed doc follows the musical journey and friendship of Omar Rodríguez-López and Cedric Bixler-Zavala, from their early days chopping their enamel in El Paso’s hardcore scene with On the Drive-In, to their legacy-defining work with The Mars Volta, and subsequent private fallout.
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“Their immense inventive success gave method to deep private fissures that ended their musical partnership in 2013, and inflicted wounds that might take greater than a decade to heal,” states the movie’s press launch. “Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Will get Bizarre charts the duo’s intense and profound journey as they navigate success, dependancy, tragedy, betrayal, forgiveness and, in the end, redemption.”
Over the course of a number of a long time, Rodríguez-López shot 100s of hours of footage documenting On the Drive-In and The Mars Volta. These residence motion pictures come to gentle within the movie, together with interviews with Omar and Cedric and stay live performance clips — as seen within the new trailer, which is twice so long as the unique teaser and options extra audio and grainy clips from Omar’s archive.
“We perceive folks can have direct questions for us, however we simply level them to Nick’s movie which holds the entire solutions,” Rodríguez-López and Bixler-Zavala informed Rolling Stone concerning the doc. “These solutions are given extra exactly and elegantly within the movie than we may ever put into phrases. We invite the world to look at and attain their very own conclusions.”
Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Will get Bizarre premiered on the Raindance Movie Pageant in October 2023, and roughly a yr later, it’s hitting choose theaters by way of Oscilloscope. The vast majority of screenings throughout the US begin November twentieth, and you may see the complete listing and discover ticket information by way of the documentary’s web site. Just a few months after that, followers can then catch The Mars Volta stay after they head out as assist for Deftones’ North American tour (get tickets right here).
Watch the complete trailer for Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Will get Bizarre beneath.
