2016 · music · documentary · history
Supersonic
Directed by Mat Whitecross1h 57m2016
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.
Our read: Supersonic (2016) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded music · documentary · history entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, breathless, gentle music / documentary, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- gentle
- redemptive
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