It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley (2025)
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- Synopsis:
- Never-before-seen footage, exclusive voice messages, and accounts from Jeff Buckley's inner circle paint a captivating portrait of the gifted musician who died tragically in 1997, having only released one album.
- Actors:
- Jeff Buckley, Mary Guibert, Ben Harper, Rebecca Moore, Michael Tighe, Parker Kindred, Kate Hyman, Andy Wallace, Michele Anthony, Karl Berger, Don Ienner, Merri Cyr, Susan Silver, Aimee Mann, Matt Johnson, Gene Bowen, Dave Shouse, Joan Wasser, Jack Bookbinder, Tammy Shouse
- Directors:
- Amy Berg
- Producers:
- Jennie Bedusa, Amy Berg, Mandy Chang, Christine Connor, Ryan Heller, Matthew Roozen
- Genres:
- Documentary, Music & Musicals, Special Interest
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Reviews (1) of It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley
Hallelujah, Mostly - It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley review by griggs
Jeff Buckley came pre-loaded with myth: Tim Buckley's estranged son, blessed with a voice and cursed with the expectations that came with it. Any documentary about him has to fight its way out from under that.
This one mostly manages it. I got into Buckley backwards, through Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk, so the myth reached me before the man did. The film's best move is reversing that order: rehearsal tapes, off-cuts, the ordinary scaffolding holding up the halo. The voice is still ridiculous — somewhere between a wounded animal and a cathedral — and somehow that description doesn't embarrass itself. It works best when the music does the talking, rather than another talking head reaching for "ethereal."
Where it wobbles is the reverence. It spends more time dusting the shrine than asking who built it, and I wanted more on those Memphis demos — a future caught horribly mid-sentence. Even so, it's absorbing, often lovely, rarely dull. A warm portrait that finds the man beneath the myth, then politely puts most of the halo back where it found it.