From singer to director
- Fans of dEUS frontman and lead singer Tom Barman queue to see his directorial feature debut, Anyway The Wind Blows about 8 people spending a summer's day in Antwerp dreaming of a better life
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Fans of Tom Barman, the Belgian frontman and lead vocalist with top local band dEUS are in delirium for today’s domestic release of Barman’s directorial feature debut, Anyway The Wind Blows [+see also:
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Barman took a temporary leave of absence from the music business to dedicate himself to cinema and critics deemed Anyway The Wind Blows as "an unclassifiable work of poetry" that matches the Antwerp-born Barman’s character in terms of both style and content. Set in Antwerp on a summer’s day and against a backdrop of music in the air and people playing with frisbees in the local parks, it is a story of people meeting and discussing the most eclectic subjects possible, from the things that have hurt them, to the Dance, viruses, Andy Warhol, films and abuse of substances of every kind. The constant of this film is an enigmatic phenomenon called Windman, who is always on the move and who perceives the suffering of those around him but is incapable of helping himself. During the course of this one day, eight people dream about making a new life for themselves.
Produced by Kaat Camerlynck and Alex Stockman’s Corridor and by Christian Pierre, Anyway The Wind Blows stars Frank Vercruyssen, Dirk Roofthooft, Diane De Belder, Matthias Schoenaerts and Eric Kloeck, with a musical score by artists like Herbie Hancock, Squarepusher, Queens of the Stone Age, Charlie Mingus, Yazoo, Magnus and Tom Barman himself. Anyway The Wind Blows is distributed in Belgium by Cinéart.
(Translated from French)
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