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The Gallagher brothers take their reconciliation to the Venice Film Festival

From La Vanguardia · () Spanish

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  • Liam and Noel Gallagher have brought their reconciliation to Venice, where a documentary about Oasis's reunion premiered at the film festival.
  • The brothers do not explain the reasons for their 15-year feud, instead focusing on their return to the stage and their future.
  • The documentary follows the reunited band from its first stop in Cardiff, where huge crowds sang along to Oasis songs.

Reconciliation comes more easily when tens of thousands of people are crying and singing your songs after 15 years away from the stage. That is what happened to Liam and Noel Gallagher, the Oasis brothers who spent three decades genuinely angry with each other. Their youngest children had reportedly never even met.

Now the brothers are displaying their reconciliation along the canals of Venice in a water taxi. They arrived at the Mostra for the premiere of Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger, a documentary that turns their story of forgiveness and redemption into cinema.

They are not the kind of guys you can sit down and make talk about it.

· Steven KnightThe documentary's writer explains why the brothers do not discuss the reasons for their feud.

Fans hoping to hear what caused the enormous rift will be disappointed. The Gallaghers never discuss it. “They are not the kind of guys you can sit down and make talk about it,” said Steven Knight, the film's writer and creator. “It wasn't about talking about the past, it was about looking to the future.”

It wasn't about talking about the past, it was about looking to the future.

· Steven KnightKnight describes the film's focus on the brothers' reunion rather than the origins of their conflict.

Directors Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace initially planned to film the brothers' reunion onstage with hidden cameras, simply recording their return together. The idea changed during the reunion tour, when the possibility of a joint interview emerged. Cardiff provides the documentary's opening stop, as police prepare for crowds described as resembling a football supporters' group. Fans, many from the working-class audience addressed by Noel Gallagher's songs, sing every verse and chorus as if Oasis were gods.

Liam, whose youthful insolence now carries a harder edge, rejects the press judgment directed at the brothers. “I'm fucking Liam Gallagher!” he declares, asking who people think they are to speak about him that way. “I'm a fucking rockstar!” On screen, the brothers also say, “It was difficult for us to forgive each other, but we saw that if you don't, you carry anger and shame. Oasis saves you!”

It was difficult for us to forgive each other, but we saw that if you don't, you carry anger and shame. Oasis saves you!

· Liam and Noel GallagherThe brothers describe the emotional meaning of their reconciliation in the documentary.
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Originally published by La Vanguardia in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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