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Tight 6-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
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Heavy Metal Drummer
2005 0h 6m EN
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6.8
SOLID
★6.8TMDB · 4
Drama
Synopsis
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The story of a 15 year's old Moroccan who is the only heavy metal fan in his town Essaouira. He spends his weekends playing traditional ballads in a wedding band with his two cousins but dreams of playing thrash metal and headlining Monsters of Rock.
“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”
Cast
Yassine Jarl
Badou
Fouzia Boutour
Sister
Credits
Behind the camera
- Director
- Luke Morris
- Writers
- Toby MacDonald, Michael Lesslie, Luke Ponte
- Languages
- Arabic, French
- Countries
- United Kingdom
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Cinephile deep dive
The take
Luke Morris directs. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in United Kingdom. Dialogue in Arabic, French.
Trivia
Things worth knowing
- 1Tight 6-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
- 2Released 21 years ago.
- 3Dialogue crosses 2 languages: Arabic, French.
- 4Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
- 5Yassine Jarl and Fouzia Boutour carry the top of the cast.
- 6IMDB entry: tt0485915 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
- 7Only 4 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.
The technical file
- Runtime
- 6 min · 0h 6m
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- EN
Community reviews
What people are saying
- CinemaSerf★ 7/10
"Badou" (Yassine Jarl) is fed up playing drums in the band he plays in with his two friends - a keyboard player and a guitarist. He thinks that their sound is the musical equivalent of paint drying, designed to provide nothing more than background noise for other people's celebratory conversations. He is rarely separated from his headphones, has just bought an Iron Maiden album and so wants to let rip at bit more. His friends know that anything more lively - or noisy - will just see their bookings dry up, so he is constantly outvoted - but for how much longer can he contain his passions? There is a scene where the three are dressed in what looks like their school uniforms churning out something akin to the music you might hear near the freezer section of the supermarket that quite succinctly sums up his frustrations, and more broadly this does illustrate just how difficult it can be to break from the "safe", especially at formal occasions. Jarl fits the bill quite nicely here. A skinny, big haired and vaguely rebellious looking character who suggests something of the ugly ducking story as this short feature progresses. The production is nothing special but is adequate enough and in so far as it goes, this has something of an encouraging free spirit to it - even if that does involve swimming against a tide. Worth five minutes, I'd say.
Key crew
- ProducerAmanda Boyle
Themes & keywords
What it's about, really
- heavy metal
- short film
Release history · US
When it landed
- Theatrical2005-09-10
