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Gifted, goofy, gone too soon: Jeff Buckley's genius remembered
It's Never Over humanises Jeff Buckley beyond the tortured artist stereotype. (Supplied: Merri Cyr/Piece of Magic Entertainment)
"Proof that God exists," enthused one review of Grace, the 1994 debut record from prodigious singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley, which David Bowie once called "the best album ever made".
Despite the rave reception to what is now widely regarded as a classic, Grace underperformed on the US charts.
Sony and Columbia Records saw Buckley as a poor investment, pressuring him into relentless touring and a swift follow-up.
A second album never came. In 1997, while working on new music in Memphis, Tennessee, Buckley drowned accidentally in Wolf River, aged just 30.
This compelling new doco explores the life of one of the world's best-ever singers
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Film Review: It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley is an intimate, emotionally layered portrait of an artist beautiful and unresolved
Access can be a dangerous crutch in documentary filmmaking – all the unseen footage and unheard audio in the world won’t save a story that doesn’t know what to do with it. Amy Berg’s It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley, however, understands that access is only the starting point. What she builds from it is something far more affecting: an intimate, emotionally layered portrait that feels less like a retrospective and more like a conversation with a ghost.
At a glance, Jeff Buckley is a figure many think they already understand – the voice behind “Hallelujah,” the artist who died too young, the myth frozen in time. Berg gently dismantles that shorthand. What emerges is a far richer, more contradictory person: fiercely sensitive, deeply curious, occasionally restless, and far more grounded in his relationships than his mythology might suggest.
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