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United Kingdom · 2016
Rated R · 1h 57m
Director Mat Whitecross
Starring Noel Gallagher, Liam Gallagher, Paul Arthurs, Paul Gallagher
Genre Documentary, Music
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From award-winning director Mat Whitecross and featuring extensive unseen archive footage, Supersonic charts the meteoric rise of Oasis from the council estates of Manchester to some of the biggest concerts of all time in just three short years. This palpable, raw and moving film shines a light on one of the most genre and generation-defining British bands that has ever existed, and features candid new interviews with Noel and Liam Gallagher, their mother, and members of the band and road crew.
Where Whitecross succeeds is in the packaging of the whole story. With a running time of just over two hours, he manages to effectively compress the rather interesting story of the band’s inception and couple that with the explosive yet turbulent times of the band out on the road.
Hardly the most probing or edifying of rock docs, this A24-backed, one-night-only theatrical release is nonetheless a riotously enjoyable, appropriately deafening flashback to one of the last moments in music history when a bunch of knuckleheads with guitars could conquer the world on chutzpah alone.
It’s a remarkable time capsule, and the whiplash of overnight fame has seldom been captured with such visceral force, but the film is so high on the absurdity of it all that it never relays any palpable sense of what it really feels like to suddenly be given everything you’ve ever wanted.
The New York Times by Glenn Kenny
It may surprise people who’ve experienced the Gallaghers only in tabloid-fodder mode that “Supersonic” teems with stirring and even moving moments.
Los Angeles Times by Katie Walsh
The frenetic, ad-hoc aesthetic of the visuals complements the shaggy dog brilliance of Oasis.
If some of the stormy relationship stories seem old, the wealth of archive material is gob-smacking: early rehearsals, gig footage and intimate phone calls.
There’s only so much lovable bad behaviour you really want to indulge them in now.
Time Out London by Tom Huddleston
Smartly cutting off before the long decline, this is an epic story, beautifully told.
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