Produced during the shocking success of 1997's Buena Vista Social Club album — the phenomenally popular collection of newly recorded Cuban roots music — Wim Wenders' documentary of the same name offered both fans and newcomers the joy of seeing brilliant elderly musicians rescued from obscurity. For most Americans, the record/film was both an introduction to a genre they hardly knew and a direct encounter with its progenitors — like discovering rockabilly just in time to see Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis give their last great concerts.
Two decades later, Lucy Walker's Buena Vista Social Club: Adios offers a very...
Two decades later, Lucy Walker's Buena Vista Social Club: Adios offers a very...
- 5/26/2017
- by John DeFore
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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