A dream sequence from 'Ex-Drummer', a 2007 feature film, written and directed by Koen Mortier. A film adaptation of the book of the same name by Herman Brusselmans. The film caused quite a stir in the rather stuffy Belgian cinema landscape of the time and received critical comments such as 'a flat sequence of stupidity', 'humiliation of women and the disabled', 'politically and socially incorrect', 'a brutal accumulation of vulgarities', 'gratuitous violence' and even 'Brusselmans simply cannot be filmed'.
We let the director comment on this situation:
"I was searching for a sober, formidable and, at the same time, sympathetic composer to write an elegy for the moment when King Baudouin died.
His death was not merely a sad event, but one that brought the country to the brink of disaster. Would there still be place for a united Belgium after his death? Was this man, also the figurehead of the unification of Belgian Catholicism, the one who held our torn country together?
Now we know that it was not so, but the sadness of the song, its grief, needed to translate this loss. It was not only the King who was dead: the country itself was also on its deathbed."
Ex-Drummer directed by Koen Mortier, produced by Eurydice Gysel (CCCP) and starring Dries Vanhegen, Norman Baert, Gunter Lamoot, Sam Louwyck, Dolores Bouckaert, Wim Willaert a.o.
'Boudewijn' performed by Guy Van Nueten and the Kirke String Quartet. Recorded by Sam Serruys, remastered by Gert Vanhoof. Special thanks to Lola Montez.
Негізгі бет Guy Van Nueten - [Boudewijn]
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