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Ex Drummer

Dries Van Hegen (Actor), Norman Baert (Actor), Koen Mortier (Director) Rated:
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  • Actors: Dries Van Hegen, Norman Baert, Gunter Lamoot, Sam Louwyck
  • Directors: Koen Mortier
  • Format: Multiple Formats, AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
  • Language: Dutch
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
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  • Studio: Kino Lorber films
  • DVD Release Date: April 20, 2010
  • Run Time: 104 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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  • ASIN: B0031L5CSK
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #98,154 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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4.0 out of 5 starsThe Flemish response to "Trainspotting", and then some!
By Paul Allaer TOP 500 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on January 30, 2013
Format: DVD
"Ex Drummer" (2007 release from Belgium; 104 min.) centers around a famous Flemish author, Dries, who gets "recruited" to join a local band to become their drummer. The band members bill themselves as "handicapped": one lisps, the next has a stiff arm, and the third is almost deaf. What is the handicap of the new drummer? He can't drum! The band, deciding to call themselves The Feminists, starts rehearsing for a one-off gig at a local "battle of the band". Eventually we get to that gig.

Several comments: to say more of the plot would be non-sensical, as this movie is a stylish exercise in extreme absurdity, not unlike, say, "Transpotting", except that it does that movie one (or two) better, and then some. After the battle of the bands concludes, the movie's last 30 minutes descends into a hellish nightmare that needs to be seen to be believed. This is about the most "anti" politically correct movie I have seen in, well, forever. It is anti-everything. Beware: there are quite a few scenes that are simply not for the faint of heart. The movie is written and directed most capably by Koen Mortier, based on a 1994 book by Herman Brusselmans, a well-known, if controversial, author and columnist in Belgium.

Let me admit that I grew up in Flanders myself, and as such I'm quite sure it was a slightly different experience for me than most others. For one, the language in the movie (a West-Flanders dialect) is so darn funny that the subtitles simply cannot pick up all of the nuances (although they were better than I expected). The music plays of course a huge part in the movie, and the trash-metal these bands play is not a big scene in Belgium, I know that for a fact. But check out the cameo appearance of the legendary Belgian musician Arno at the end of the "battle of the bands", just amazing. Bottom line: this movie is not just miles, but GALAXIES away from your standard Hollywood fare.
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4.0 out of 5 starsNot for the faint of heart
By Phillip Royer on October 24, 2011
Format: DVD
The dialog in the film is so quick-witted sometimes I could barely keep up with the subtitles. It's dark and nihilistic and spares nothing in its onslaught. It's offensive, very funny at times, punk and truly bizarre. There's a subtle structural game going on as well that's all but lost amidst the barrage of hate and humor. Based on the semi-autobiographical cult novel by controversial Belgian writer Herman Brusselmans, Ex Drummer tells the story of Dries, a famous writer living the good life with his beautiful wife in their beautiful apartment, who is approached one day by three losers who want him to join their band as the drummer. He accepts the invitation as an opportunity for source material. As the film unfolds Dries is sometimes seen as reporting on the events that he experiences and at other times he seems to be inventing them. It's not important to the film one way or the other and appears to be just one of innumerable filmic techniques employed by the director of this punk stew.

Each member of the band must have a handicap. The singer has a lisp and lives on the ceiling of his apartment. The lisp was lost on me as I don't speak the language, but it is apparently so bad it's reached the level of a handicap. The bass player has a debilitating mother complex, keeps his father in a straight jacket strapped to a bed in his attic, and he's got a stiff right arm. The guitar player is deaf and addicted to crack. The drummer's handicap is that he can't play drums ... but he's writing the story so he lies about it.

The band is only going to play one gig, a battle of the bands, and then breakup. There isn't much of a story to follow. We're simply treated to the machinations of this motley crew as they prepare for the concert and their lives crumble around them. The soundtrack is magnificent and the acting is all spot on. If you like punk, you should like this.
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3.0 out of 5 starsAmusing, though not well-paced.
By Robert Beveridge HALL OF FAMEVINE VOICE on July 18, 2011
Format: DVD
<strong>Ex Drummer</strong> (Koen Mortier, 2007)

From everything I'd heard about Koen Mortier's <em>Ex Drummer</em>, a shockingly (well, shocking to me, anyway) controversial film when it came out in 2007, I expected it to be a Flemish <em>Goreinvasión</em>. Instead, I got a Flemish <em>Hard Core Logo</em>, and while it's nowhere near as brilliant as Bruce MacDonald's tale of life-on-the-road punk woe, it's funny, it's switchblade-sharp, and it's not nearly as politically incorrect, or as controversial, as you've been told.

Plot: Dries (successful TV actor Dries van Hagen, most recently in the series <em>David</em>) is a drummer who joins a band where everyone is handicapped. (This is the source of most of the controversy, and it's entirely artificial; the "handicaps" in question are of the emotional "daddy didn't cuddle me growing up" variety... which really, when you consider it, means Dries is joining Staind.) There is then great controversy among both critics and fans, entirely separate from the controversy that surrounds the "handicapped" issue, about what occurs. The press for the film, and most of the critics who reviewed it when it was first released, are convinced that Dries immediately starts manipulating the other members of the band in his own quest for fame and fortune. A growing number of us, on the other hand, have a different view of that, but I'm getting ahead of myself. In any case, the band (who are truly awful) start making a name for themselves, capitalizing on the handicapped angle. Can fame and fortune truly be on the horizon? Hey, it worked for the Kids of Widney High...Read more ›
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