Films by Mario Bergmann

Germany, USA 2021, 82 min
by Philipp Reichenheim

n the years just before Nirvana and the grunge wave, idiosyncratic trio Dinosaur Jr. were many noise geeks’ wet American dream. The massively noisy but also melodically refined group had a positive musical energy that contrasted with the chemistry that otherwise existed between the three members. ‘As long as he didn’t say anything, we understood each other very well,’ as J. Masics says of Lou Barlow in the film. The trio had to go through almost 20 years of separation before they could be reunit