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It arrives in Italian cinemas as a special event, only on 16, 17, 18 March, 60 years after its birth, IT'S NEVER OVER: JEFF BUCKLEY, directed by Oscar-nominated director Amy Berg and co-produced by Brad Pitt.
Strong, sincere, but also rough, tormented, intimate, true, a piece of music history that perhaps not everyone knows in Italy, is the highly recommended biopic on Jeff Buckley (1966-1997), the talented son of singer-songwriter Tim Buckley, often painted as the new Dylan and who passed away prematurely.
It's Never Over: Jeff Buckley, directed by Oscar-nominated director Amy Berg and co-produced by Brad Pitt, following its success at the Sundance Festival and the Rome Film Festival.
After more than an hour and a half, the film outlines Jeff's relationship with his hippie and irresponsible mother, with his friends and girlfriends, but also his artistic journey, his early passion for music and the shadow of a father who died from drugs at the height of his musical success.
It is also the story of Grace (1994), the album that brought the singer to success, before his tragic death in the waters of a tributary of the Mississippi at the age of thirty in 1997, after an endless tour around the world.
A series of concerts and vicissitudes well told in Amy Berg's documentary built with unpublished archive materials from Buckley's personal heritage and intimate testimonies from his mother Mary Guibert, his former bandmates Rebecca Moore and Joan Wasser, his former bandmates – including Michael Tighe and Parker Kindred – and artists such as Ben Harper and Aimee Mann.
“His archive materials were unforgettable: I think for example of the last poignant voice message left on the answering machine. I was certain that a documentary would come out of it”, explains Berg.
