Film - The Drummer and The Keeper

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The picture follows the friendship between a drummer, who has a bipolar condition, and a teenager with Asperger’s syndrome.

“Yes, my son Finn, who is 12, has Asperger’s,” he says. “I say ‘autism’ because it really is on the spectrum. An awful lot of people have a hang-up about it. They think if you have Asperger’s you’re like David Byrne or Steve Jobs. If you’re autistic you’re Rainman: non-verbally in the corner. That sort of thing. I was cautious about that. But it was inspired by something a little different. I have noticed at moments of deep personal trauma all the people who are supposed to be helpful are useless and the weirdest people are helpful.”