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Ex Drummer

Belgium

2007

101 Min
Color
1.85:1
Flemish, Dutch
  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
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DIR Koen Mortier

EXEC Ruben Goots

PROD Koen Mortier, Eurydice Gysel

SCR Herman Brusselmans, Koen Mortier

DP Glynn Speeckaert

CAST Dries Van Hegen, Norman Baert, Gunter Lamoot, Sam Louwyck, François Beukelaers, Bernadette Damman

ED Manu Van Hove

MUSIC Millionaire, Arno

SOUND Marc Engels

Rotterdam (Competition), Toronto (Vanguard), Karlovy Vary (Another View), Transilvania (Competition), Oldenburg

Synopsis

Every village has its band of fools, trying to get to the top, following their idols in drug habits, but staying losers till the end of their pathetic days. They all do this in the name of rock & roll. Three disabled rock musicians are looking for a drummer. Dries, a well known writer, seems the right guy for the job, were it not for the fact that his only handicap is that he can’t play the drums. He joins the group as a perfect, but evil god walking down his mountain to play with the populace. With the arrival of this infiltrator, personal disputes and family feuds start to jeopardize the band’s fragile future. Dries will manipulate them till they are willing to drink each others blood and their only future is written down in many Punk lyrics: “No Future”. —IMDb

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9Jan13

such realistically disgusting portrait of low life

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Ísis Martins

7Oct12

A story with eccentric characters and a awesome soundtrack.

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Paolo Simeone

10Sep12

Vabbé, lo avranno chiuso in gabbia senza cibo e picchiato per mesi al regista per metterlo del giusto umore per girare 'sto film.

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6Sep12

Bizarre, staggeringly violent and darkly comic. A rather severe social commentary from Belgium's Koen Mortier that skewers political correctness by means of fierce provocation. Visually creative and certainly unforgettable. Perhaps unfortunately so...

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Review: EX DRUMMER (Personal Favorites #64)

By Twitchfilm.com on April 18, 2012
With Ex Drummer, Koen Mortier (22 Mei) followed the path that Tom Barman’s Any Way The Wind Blows cleared a couple of years earlier. Mortier merely confirmed it was possible to make challenging, unique
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FANTASIA: EX DRUMMER Review

By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
It’s gutter tourism for famed author Dries in Koen Mortier’s adaptation of the cult novel by Herman Brusselmans. Transgressive, vulgar, violent, and sexually sexually explicit, Mortier’s debut also showcases
read on Twitchfilm.com

Cult Hit EX DRUMMER Finally Hits US DVD

By Twitchfilm.com on April 29, 2011
America has had to wait a long, long time for Koen Mortier’s Ex Drummer. One of the most potent debut films I have ever come across – you can read my review here – the picture deserves all the……
read on Twitchfilm.com

FANTASIA: EX DRUMMER Review

By Twitchfilm.net on July 16, 2010
It’s gutter tourism for famed author Dries in Koen Mortier’s adaptation of the cult novel by Herman Brusselmans. Transgressive, vulgar, violent, and sexually sexually explicit, Mortier’s debut also showcases
read on Twitchfilm.net

Cult Hit EX DRUMMER Finally Hits US DVD

By Twitchfilm.net on July 16, 2010
America has had to wait a long, long time for Koen Mortier’s Ex Drummer. One of the most potent debut films I have ever come across – you can read my review here – the picture deserves all the…
read on Twitchfilm.net

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Anarchy in Belgium.

By Salem Kapsask​i on March 2, 2010

Dries, a famous Belgian writer, is visited by three “handicapped” losers (don’t worry this is not a lame new adaptation of a Christmas Carol) A misogynistic skinhead with a lisp, a gay mommy’s boy…  read review

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