A new film about Oasis’s historic 2025 world tour, which premiered Saturday in Venice, captures the frosty reunion of the British band’s Gallagher brothers and shows how their children have become the “cement” in their volatile relationship.
Fans began gathering at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday morning ahead of the premiere, with the Gallagher brothers waving to them from a boat as they arrived in the sun-drenched Italian city.
Over the course of the tour, the combustible brothers gradually bury one of the most famous feuds in modern rock music, which dates back to a 2009 backstage fight before a concert in Paris. Their on-stage reunion last year saw an outpouring of 1990s nostalgia and support for Oasis, one of the biggest rock bands of the past 30 years, with the film seeking to explain why they have such strong cross-generational and cross-language appeal. The film was directed by renowned British music documentary makers Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace who worked alongside Knight.
“They’re English working-class men, they’re not going to show emotion, not going to even shake hands,” film creator Steven Knight, creator of the “Peaky Blinders” TV series and the writer of the new James Bond film, told AFP. Liam and Noel’s reconciliation was helped by the budding relationships between their children who didn’t know each other before the band reunion, according to Knight. The Oasis duo as well as British acting superstar Robert Pattinson, appearing for his new film “Primetime”, brought a buzz to the Venice festival on Saturday which has been largely shunned by big Hollywood studios this year.
