THE DRUMMER AND THE KEEPER - Reelabilities Film Festival

Showings

Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 2 Sun, Apr 7, 2019 3:00 PM

Description

REELABILITIES FILM FESTIVAL

THE DRUMMER AND THE KEEPER


Sunday, April 7 at 3 PM
$11 Members | $16 Public

A Skype Q&A with Director Nick Kelly will follow the film

Recently diagnosed with bipolar disorder, the drummer of a rock band strikes up an unusual friendship with an institutionalized teen with Asperger's syndrome.

Gabriel (DERMOT MURPHY) is a chaotic young rock drummer desperate to hide his recent Bipolar diagnosis from his increasingly exasperated band mates. At the therapeutic mixed ability football game he's obliged to attend as part of his treatment Gabriel is spectacularly upended by goalkeeper Christopher (JACOB McCARTHY), an institutionalised 17-year-old with Aspergers Syndrome. Having taken violent revenge, Gabriel faces expulsion - and the prospect of being sectioned - unless he "makes friends" with Christopher. When the isolated and socially-inept young goalkeeper takes this grudging offer of friendship literally, Gabriel finds his footsteps dogged and secrets threatened by an embarrassingly eager and dangerously tactless new disciple. (Ireland, 2018, 94 min, English, NR | Dir. Nick Kelly)