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Buena Vista Social Club (1999)
Director: Wim Wenders
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From Time Out Film Guide
Hard to credit that Wenders can still come up with a film that people actually want to see, but this project (handed to him on a plate by Ry Cooder) is a blinder. It documents the second phase in Cooder's reactivation of a group of elderly soneros musicians in Cuba: a trip to Havana in early 1998 to record with the amazing Ibrahim Ferrer, which prompts a reunion of the musicians who'd worked with Cooder on the original 'Buena Vista Social Club' album and leads to SRO concerts in Amsterdam and New York. The film-making is workmanlike and never gets in the way of the pleasure of seeing these incredible oldsters getting the standing ovations they've deserved all their lives.Author: TR
Cast & crew
Director: Wim Wenders
Producer: Wim Wenders, Ulrich Felsberg, Rosa Bosch
Cast: Ry Cooder, Compay Segundo, Eliades Ochoa, Ibrahim Ferrer, Omara Portuondo, Orlando 'Cachaito' Lopez full cast
Genre(s): Documentaries
Duration: 101 mins
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