Ex Drummer

20072007
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1h 44m

IMDb RATING

6.9/10

10K

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Comedy Crime Drama

Three handicapped losers who form a band ask famous writer Dries to be their drummer. He joins the band and starts manipulating them.Three handicapped losers who form a band ask famous writer Dries to be their drummer. He joins the band and starts manipulating them.Three handicapped losers who form a band ask famous writer Dries to be their drummer. He joins the band and starts manipulating them.

IMDb RATING

6.9/10

10K

YOUR RATING

Director
- Koen Mortier
Writers
- Herman Brusselmans(novel)
- Koen Mortier(screenplay)
Stars

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Awards
- 3 wins & 3 nominations

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Trivia
Rival band in the movie, "Harry Mulisch", is named after prominent Dutch writer Harry Mulisch.

Quotes
Lio: Why do you want to play with that f**king band?
Dries: I don't really know. I think I want to step outside my happy world. Descend into the depths of stupidity, ugliness, obtuseness, unfaithfulness and fakeness. Latch onto the life of losers, but without belonging to that world - and in the knowledge that I can always return to my own world... and to you.

Connections
Referenced in Quarto de espera (2009)

Soundtracks
2 Morro Morro Land
by Brian Chippendale, Brian Gibson
Performed by Lightning Bolt
Courtesy of Load Records
under license from Load Records

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Review

Featured review

8/10

Nicely done adaptation, true to the novelist's style

For the portion of Herman Brusselmans's oeuvre I've read, the movie gave me quite the same feelings as his books. Is that a good thing? It is if you like the man's early work. It shares the very cynical humorous comments the protagonist dispenses in reaction to the other character's actions, as well as his patronizing lecturing towards the young attractive females.

None of the characters are even remotely likable. They're antisocial, immoral sometimes even homicidal ugly bastards and bitches. A normal conversation between them is simply impossible, insults and curses galore. At times it can get a bit cartoonesque.

Is it funny? Yes. Well, funny crude. Everything is quite over the top: the nudity, the violence and especially the music, which saves the film for a great deal. The soundtrack is an amalgam of Belgian and international noise rock, with some softer tracks to ease the pace.

I found it 90 minutes well spent, even if it dragged on a bit too long in the end.

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