Ex Drummer
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
Heavy, breathless, extreme drama / punk, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Three musicians form a band. But they're not just any musicians: each has a disability that makes them particularly unsuitable for their instrument. The guitarist is deaf, the singer is tone deaf, and the bassist has a stiff arm. They lack a drummer, and to respect the group's uniqueness, they turn to a famous writer who has never played the drums. He accepts, but begins a manipulation that will wreak further havoc on the already largely dysfunctional band.
Our read · Ex Drummer (2007) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive drama · punk · transgressive entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of Ex Drummer
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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