Its extremely hard not to gush overJeff Buckley.
So is the love for the person that many of the interviewees here reminisce about.
Straight-up hagiographies and hit jobs thankfully werent options.
Jeff Buckley, the subject of the music doc ‘It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley.‘Merri Cyr
Rarities abound, which makes this feel as much like an archive tour as a movable scrapbook.
The elder Buckley died of a heroin overdose shortly thereafter.
That was not a shadow the young man was interested in living under.
(See: virtually all tortured male artists in their twenties.
You know what happens next.
What did you inherit from your father, one unfortunate interviewer asks him.
People who remember my father, he spits back, staring icicle daggers.
This was a soulful testifying that truly went into the mystic.
He talked about meeting Cohen and asking him about Jeffs cover.
The elderly man gripped his arm, Harper said, and admiringly went, Whoa!
The room was pin-drop silent.
Then, when he finished, people burst into raucous applause.
It was the perfect capper to the doc.
A moment we wished would never be over.
