{"id":238,"date":"2012-09-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/simonlee\/film-greetings-from-tim-buckley-review\/"},"modified":"2012-09-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T00:00:00","slug":"film-greetings-from-tim-buckley-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/simonlee\/film-greetings-from-tim-buckley-review\/","title":{"rendered":"FILM: Greetings From Tim Buckley Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Taking on the role of one of music\u2019s most iconic figures is no mean feat: especially when you\u2019re best known as a teenage heartthrob (albeit the academic college-type) on one of America\u2019s most popular television series. So how did Penn Badgley fare as the young Jeff Buckley?<\/p>\n

The film follows Jeff\u2019s journey as he\u2019s invited to perform at a tribute concert for the late Tim Buckley, the father her never knew (Tim Buckley died of an overdose in 1975). We see Jeff coming to terms with his father, getting ready for the concert and fooling around (and starting to fall in love) with the young and beautiful Allie (Imogen Poots), interspersed with flashbacks of Tim, before and after his son\u2019s birth. Here lies the main problem with the film: there is little flow between the two stories and it is unclear how we\u2019re supposed to feel about Tim\u2019s failings as a parent, which leads to a feeling of unfinished business at the film\u2019s conclusion.<\/p>\n

This is where the failings end, however. This film is all about Penn\u2019s break-out performance as a brooding and totally believable Buckley \u2013 voice and all. Who knew that such a talent was hiding under Dan Humphries\u2019 mop of curly hair? Badgley lets loose in a memorable record-shop, which sees him warbling his way through the decades to impress Allie, and his two full-length performances at the tribute concert are breath-taking. Ben Rosenfield, while failing to out-shine Badgley, is equally as convincing as Tim Buckley; at several junctures having us fooled that we\u2019re watching actual documentary footage.<\/p>\n

Despite the narrative failings of this film, the emotion and nostalgia played through by the leads makes Greetings From Tim Buckley far more than watchable. We could have watched the final concert from start to finish (watch out for a cameo from come-back kid Kate Nash as one of the band) and Badgley more than does justice to one of music\u2019s cult heroes. Goodbye\u00a0Gossip Girl<\/em>,\u00a0hello world.<\/p>\n

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