June 9, 2026

"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 m… read the rest.

"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.

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