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After Grace , JEFF BUCKLEY retreated from fame into a bare Memphis shack, chasing darker sounds, deeper truths and a new creative path. As a new documentary confronts the realities of his life, family, friends and collaborators reflect on the restless search and the fragile rebirth. “He was trying to figure out where he fit in the universe spiritually,” they tell Nick Hasted. “He was trying to make his A Love Supreme .”