Buena Vista Social Club

Sunday, 18 May 2008

Sun 18 May
Sul 18 Mai

Germany/USA/UK/France/Cuba/1999/101 mins/subtitled/U. Dir: Wim Wenders. With Ry Cooder, Compay Segundo, Ibrahim Ferrer.

A beautiful study of sun-kissed Havana, its joyful music and its ageing musicians, this acclaimed documentary demonstrates Wenders remarkable ability for capturing the ambience of performance. Ry Cooder travels to Havana to record with the amazing singer Ibrahim Ferrer, prompting a reunion of the elderly soneros musicians who'd worked on the original 'Buena Vista Social Club' album.

"these musicians have lived extraordinary lives and it's as much a privilege to learn of their pasts as it is to hear them play" - Channel 4

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Wim Wenders With his photographer’s eye for landscape and architecture, a fine ear for music, and a rare ability to express subtle emotions through movement, gestures and glances, Wim Wenders was a leading light of the New German Cinema of the 1970s. more