By LoffMusic Editorial Staff – July 2025
Twenty-eight years after his untimely death, Jeff Buckley continues to thrill as he did on the very first day. Now, a new documentary film promises to explore, with unprecedented closeness, the complexity of his figure, his art and the mystery surrounding one of the most captivating talents of the 1990s.
“It’s Never Over,” directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Amy Berg(Janis: Little Girl Blue, Deliver Us from Evil), will be released in U.S. theaters on August 8, with plans to hit platforms like HBO Max this winter. The recently released official trailer already warns that this is not just a biographical overview, but an emotional and creative immersion into Buckley’s soul.
🎙 More than a documentary: an intimate testimony.
Taking its title from a verse of his heartbreaking Lover, You Should’ve Come Over, the film tells the story of the singer-songwriter from his beginnings until his tragic death in 1997, at the age of 30, drowned in the Wolf River in Memphis, at a time when his career was just beginning to take off after the release of his only studio album, Grace (1994).
With exclusive access to personal archives, unreleased recordings and the participation of key figures such as his mother Mary Guibert, his ex-partners Rebecca Moore and Joan Wasser, his bandmates Michael Tighe and Parker Kindred, as well as testimonials from artists such as Ben Harper and Aimee Mann, It’s Never Over offers a delicate and honest look at an artist who, with just one album, managed to influence generations.
🌊 Jeff Buckley: voice from another world, life interrupted.
This is not the first time an attempt has been made to portray Buckley on the big screen, but no previous work has had such in-depth access to his personal archive or the direct blessing of those closest to him.
The film dwells especially on the process of creating Grace, an album in which Buckley poured everything: his musical heritage, his pain, his wandering spirit and his supernatural capacity to move. Songs like Last Goodbye, Grace, Mojo Pin and, of course, his breathtaking version of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah, still sound like timeless hymns of vulnerability and beauty.
In addition to never-before-seen visual material, the film includes audios of Buckley himself reflecting on his influences (from Edith Piaf to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan), his place in the world and his relationship with his mother, in a confessional tone that promises to strike a deep chord.
