Biopics come in a number of flavors, though most turn out either to be hagiographies that clean up the little and big messes of famous lives, burnishing legends for maximum nostalgia, or analytical postmortems that try to put their subjects into play with history and the world. “Greetings From Tim Buckley” takes a look at two musicians who died young and were largely strangers, Tim Buckley and his son Jeff Buckley, and goes right for worship: it’s sweet, sentimental, almost inevitably touching if not especially persuasive, brushing against the thorns in each man’s life without drawing blood. Mostly it plays out as a virtual reunion tour and fantasy father-and-son encounter session.
The movie was was released on video on demand last month and is set to open in select theaters starting yesterday (Friday May 3, 2013). MORE HERE & HERE
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