Live Forever (2003)

User Rating:

6.8/10   

Director:

John Dower

Writer:

John Dower (writer)

Release Date:

7 March 2003 (UK)

Genre:

Documentary | Music

Plot:

Hilarous documentary about the Britpop music scene in the Nineties, featuring all the main bands of the scene exposing the truth behind the myths. |

Cast

Noel Gallagher	...	Himself
Liam Gallagher	...	Himself
Damon Albarn	...	Himself
Jarvis Cocker	...	Himself
Kevin Cummins	...	Himself
Toby Young	...	Himself
Ozwald Boateng	...	Himself
Damien Hirst	...	Himself
Robert del Naja	...	Himself (as 3D)
Jon Savage	...	Himself
Louise Wener	...	Herself
Peter Mandelson	...	Himself
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Tony Blair	...	Himself (archive footage)

MPAA:

Rated R for language including drug references.

Runtime:

UK:82 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Australia:M | Netherlands:MG6 | UK:15 | USA:R

Company:

Passion Pictures

Quotes:

Liam Gallagher: Didn't like music then. Just played football and come in late for me tea. Knocked on people's doors and run off. Ran through people's gardens and pinched things.
Interviewer: What sort of things would you pinch?
Liam Gallagher: Clothes off the washing line. If I thought they looked pretty cool, I thought, "I'll have that". Mountain bikes. Lawnmowers.
Interviewer: You used to pinch lawnmowers?
Liam Gallagher: Yeah. And sell 'em. For weed.

Soundtrack:

Parklife

The rise and the fall of Britpop

John Dower's Live Forever documentary is a funny and brilliant insight into the Britpop huge phenomenon which took place from the early to the late nineties, a time when Britain wasn't "great"… it was cool!

Among other icons such as Pulp's Jarvis Cocker, Massive Attack's Del Naja or Sleeper's Louise Wener, we find the stars of the film: Oasis Gallagher brothers (in fact, the documentary is named after their probably biggest anthem ever) and Blur's Damon Albarn. Listening to their interviews, we clearly remember a time when the working-class heroes Liam and Noel Gallagher leaded the fierce rivalry with the middle-class bohemian Blur boys.

Far from being a one-sided documentary, Live Forever also reflects the political and social framework during the days of the Cool Britannia, and so show us how Blair's New Labour seized upon Britpop to bolster its own public image, leading it to its end.

A simply hilarious Liam Gallagher, an often puzzled Damon Albarn, an honest and always stylish Jarvis Coker and a witty and sarcastic Noel Gallagher, together with the superb soundtrack of the film, take the nostalgics back to the "madferit" days of not just a musical phenomenon but a way of life.

If you liked "24 Hour Party People", don't miss this masterpiece.