Buena Vista Social Club (1999)

Directed by

Wim Wenders

Genre

documentary film, musical film

Country

Germany, United Kingdom, France, United States

Runtime

1h 41m

Rated

G

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 377 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Wim Wenders travels to Cuba to document the elderly musicians who recorded the Buena Vista Social Club album. The film shows them performing and talking about their lives before and after the Cuban Revolution.

upliftingnostalgicwarmintimatecontemplativerhythmicjoyfulmelancholic

What happens

Buena Vista Social Club is a 1999 documentary film directed by Wim Wenders about the music of Cuba, featuring the musicians who recorded the 1997 album Buena Vista Social Club. The film is an international co-production of Germany, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Cuba. In 2020, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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