“It hurts to get involved in this film”

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It hurts to get involved in this film

Is it genius or madness when a young director chooses one for his first big film scandalous book template choose? The novels of the Belgian writer Herman Brusselman are not only considered controversial, but also unfilmable. Nevertheless, Koen Mortier managed to do one to make an uncomfortable but watchable filmwhich definitely doesn’t let go of you so quickly.

At the January 18th Ex Drummer will be released finally back for home cinema on Blu-ray and can already be pre-ordered now.

Fans can also enjoy an extensive Bonus material be happy.

  • Making of
  • Statement from director Koen Mortier
  • two short films “A Hard Day’s Work” *; “Ana Temnei”
  • Music video “De grotste lul van ‘t stad” by Flip Kowlier
  • Music video “Oh; Brother” by The Feminists with music by Millionaire
  • Performance by the band Overdo Hykers
  • German and Belgian trailer

    • That’s what Ex Drummer is about

    One day, three guys from an incomplete band show up at the door of the underground writer Dries (Dries Vanhegen). The singer Koen (Norman Baert) beats every woman around him together for no reason, but sleeps with the bassist Jan’s mother (Gunter Lamoot). The deaf guitarist Ivan (Sam Louwyck) feeds his baby coketo keep it quiet.

    They want to recruit ex-drummer Dries for their band, who is less interested in his musical ambitions than in his cynical study of a living object. He repeatedly puts his colleagues in almost hopeless situations until an experiment takes a tragic turn.

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    Hardly any taboo is left out in Ex Drummer.

    Ex drummer: It’s worth looking, even if it hurts

    Hardly any taboo is left out in Ex Drummer, which is why it ends up on our list of films that deserve a higher age rating. Especially because of the explicit scenes of violence, which manifest themselves in child abuse, rape and mutilation. The heroes of this film are broken, perverted and disgusting, It hurts to watch and yet it is important to face this social drama.

    In his film review on Kino-Zeit, Joachim Kurz is of the opinion that Mortier knows how not to present his characters or judge them, he shows them as they are:

    It hurts to get involved in this film, but the pain is always a healing experience. And that especially applies to Ex Drummer, which is certainly one of the most disturbing and disturbing films of the year.

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