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Jeff Buckley.
(Photo Gie Knaeps/Getty ImagesThe mother of the deceased musician Jeff buckleywho drowned in Wolf River in May 1997 had a good reason to refuse Brad Pitta Request to play a singer and composer in a biographical film years ago.
“We’ll color your hair, put on brown contact lenses on those baby blues, and you open your mouth and hear Jeff’s voice?” skeptical Mary Guibert said Variety Stars in an interview published on Saturday, January 25.
It seems that musical biographical films are everywhere, from the upcoming Bruce Springsteen Jeremy Allen White to Timothée Chalamet, who shows his vocals like Bob Dylan in and Complete Unknown. Yet these flicks are not a new phenomenon. Films focused on music icon lives have attracted viewers for decades, from Coal Miner’s Daughter of 80.
Despite Pitt inviting Guiberta to a wedding with a ex -wife Jennifer AnistonGuibert would not move. The couple constantly talked about the possibility of making a film about Buckley’s life as a director Amy BergFinally he landed on the best way to pay tribute to the deceased musician: a documentary.
“As soon as I started listening to his voice messages and his DAP player and demonstrations and reading his diaries, I couldn’t imagine it would be something other than a document,” Berg explained to the output. “And I just didn’t know how you could repeat Jeff in the sense of the script.”
The result is a document It never ends, Jeff Buckleywhich premiered at the Sundance 2025 Film Festival on Friday, January 24.
The son of Guibert and the musician Tim Buckleywho left when his son was six months old and later died of drug overdose at the age of 28, younger Buckley signed a contract for three albums with Columbia Records for nearly $ 1 million in 1992. He released his only recording, Grace in 1994, but tried to handle great praise from fans and musicians he admired as his idol. Bob Dylan.
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His death three years later, as Variety said, “wrapped in mystery”. Rolling Stone published investigation What went wrong that night, but failed to include the results of Buckley’s autopsy, something Berg believes that “contributed to the inheritance that Jeff probably overdose”. Instead, the singer drowned because of the strong stream of the river.
“One of the great things on Jeff Buckley is that you discover it when you want to discover it,” Berg also said about the singer who is still best known for his coverversion Leonard Cohen “Hallelujah.”
“Certainly made a big influence on Tiktok, where I was surprised to have more fans on Jeff Buckley’s hashtag than Bob Dylan,” she continued. “He certainly experiences another moment in the history of pop culture.”
