The documentary It's Never Over: Jeff Buckley directed by Amy Berg and co-produced by Brad Pitt will be in Italian cinemas for three days in March, 16, 17 and 18 March. Presented at Sundance (we wrote about it here) and then seen in Rome, the film uses a lot of unpublished archive material to outline a portrait of the artist with the help of Mary Guibert, who is Buckley's mother and has always been the person who manages his legacy and artistic heritage.
Among the people interviewed also ex-girlfriends Rebecca Moore and Joan Wasser (Joan as Police Woman), band members Michael Tighe and Matt Johnson, producer Andy Wallace, tour manager Gene Bowen, colleagues Ben Harper and Aimee Mann.
“I don't remember a time in my life when I didn't think about making a film about Jeff Buckley,” the director said. «I've been thinking about it at least since I started making films in 2006. Or maybe since '94, when for the first time I listened to Grace… Mary, Jeff's mother, is the first person I met to sketch it out. At the time, 18 years ago, you were thinking about a biopic. But 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 and in 2019 my proposal was accepted. A beautiful labor of love, for us who didn't know him, to get as close to him as possible.”
The title It's Never Over is taken from the text of Lover, You Should've Come Overthe song of Grace which was recently rediscovered on TikTok.
