Much like a thriller, the early stages of the band flash before our eyes. The fighting, the headlines, the interviews, all the way up to some grainy phone footage from 2009 in Paris, when the venue manager had to announce that the band had split up for good.

Liam and Noel Gallagher, of the group Oasis, the creators of anthems like “Wonderwall” and “Champagne Supernova”, fighting? That in itself was nothing new. But this time, the break-up was meant to last. So when the news broke that the brothers had finally made peace 15 years later and would go on tour again in 2025, the reaction was comparable to an earthquake. Would the tour last until the end this time? Had some higher powers decided that humanity needed something good in life again? But more on God later.

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“Create chaos” was the self-proclaimed motto of the band. These two brothers, ever at odds, were explosive, arrogant, but insanely gifted and unapologetic. Real gangsters, so to speak, and who knows those explosive dynamics better than Steven Knight, creator of shows like Peaky Blinders and House of Guinness? He scripted the documentary Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger, shot by directors Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace, and shown Out of Competition at the 83rd Venice Film Festival, following the band from their early rehearsals to concerts around the world.

But unlike his fictional shows, there is astonishingly little drama in this reunion. The anticipated blow-up between the brothers? It never materialises. Sure, there is anxiety during the first few rehearsals. Will they both keep the peace? Noel, the perfectionist pro, and Liam, the unpredictable one who only shows up so often, but sings and performs on stage like he is 30 years younger?

But Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger is not about gossip. This is a movie about the magic that is Oasis. That may sound a bit PR-heavy, and it definitely is – even a bit arrogant. Also, it doesn’t take long for the spiritual comparisons to rear their heads, uttered by one of the brothers. Even in the images, when Liam is balancing the tambourine on his head, one would have to be blind not to see a glorified halo shining over the singer.

But with the repeated glances at the audience, the crying, the singing, the praying and the kissing, one cannot deny that there is a certain dignified spark. “It’s like they knocked down my door to look inside,” one fan recounts in a voice-over. People from all over the world share their personal journey with the band through voice recordings. How they felt seen and understood. Some of them even make it onto the screen: a non-verbal boy who loves the song “Talk Tonight”; a Brazilian girl who found a welcoming community; and an English lass who worked through the trauma of the Ariana Grande concert bombing of 2017 by listening to “Don’t Look Back in Anger”.

Indeed, “don’t look back in anger” is the second big theme of this film, encompassing forgiveness, newfound love for one another and celebrating those habits that formerly drove the brothers up the wall. Holding on to anger ruins one’s life, is their consensus. The fact that Oasis ended the way it did, and that they let themselves and their fans down, has been gnawing away at them for over a decade.

“Fix the shit” is the new mantra. “Create chaos” has become “Fucking great chaos”. Because, and this is the final theme, we are living in horrible times: politics, conflict, a lack of future prospects… “People need escapism,” asserts Liam. The fact that the music still speaks to newer generations that have, as one Korean girl puts it, “only experienced the band second-hand through videos” is proof of how timeless Oasis is to this day. And speaking of spiritual experiences, even at the press screening, people were crying and singing after the credits rolled.

Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger was produced by the UK’s Magna Studios and is sold internationally by Sony Music Vision.