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Rating: Film from 2010, a Norwegian-French production, it is a movie that surprised me.
A detective story between the grotesque and not, certainly quirky, in which a commissioner finds himself investigating an organized group of drummers who, in their own way, wage a battle against the conventions of the music world, playing on the boundary between pure nihilism and artistic protest (new against old, free against constrained... this is classic, but the screenplay is not). It's a claim for the right to expression taken to the extreme, or perhaps the demand to be heard. Thus, an outlawed war with something legitimate and something more arrogant. In this, there's a sense of punk. If one thinks of punk, the discourse is the same, but modern, without the look and folklore of the genre.
The commissioner, while investigating these events, also rummages through his own life, struck by an unexpected need (or opportunity?) to put it in order. Again, music is at the center of this second, more private investigation.
In the film, the music is indeed created, only rhythmic, yes, but polyrhythmic, in an aesthetic pursuit of certain complexity, which I greatly appreciated. Nothing truly novel, but pleasant to hear with good audio and beautiful for how it is contextualized and motivated.
A grotesque film, as I was saying, but without overloaded figures. On the contrary, the characters are quite plausible. It is their actions that are exaggerated, on the edge of the criminal with a fancifulness that is over the top, but it works well that way.
To be honest, amidst all this fantasy, the film seems a bit disjointed; at a certain point, it ends, and I wonder if there was something to understand. But for this reason too, I found it enjoyable; it gave me a lovely, light-hearted evening, far from the thousand clichés I might have encountered in other light films.
I must specify that some themes that pass before our eyes (not explained but complete in details, which were well chosen) are not light: a childhood within the family that shapes the present; the relationship between misunderstood artists and famous artists; and then, in general, a good discourse on music in the world, of the world, noise, and sounds.
Moreover, some scenes are really difficult to conceive, in my opinion, showpieces for the interaction between the visual part, the soundtrack, and the sound effects of the film.
In short, perhaps not to everyone's taste, but it should appeal to some as it appealed to me.
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