- By :
- Wim WENDERS
- Cuba, 1998
- 105 min
Wender’s classic about the legendary Cuban musicians who achieved global fame just before dying. A compelling and moving film metaphorically and literary. A world hit.
In 1998 Ry Cooder, the music composer of acclaimed films such as “Paris Texas”, embark on a journey to Cuba together with his friend Wim Wenders to reunite the group of aging and legendary Cuban musicians with whom Cooder recorded an album a couple of years earlier. The old men used to play at the Buena Vista Social Club, but sank into oblivion when Castro came to power and the club closed down.
They recording of the second album was successful, but what catapulted Ibrahim Ferrer and the other elderly musicians into worldwide fame was Wim Wender’s much loved film “Buena Vista Social Club”. Not only did the film lead to the musicians becoming world celebrities and sought-after musicians who, to their own surprise, ended up touring the world during the last years of their lives, it also lead to most people humming the same tune in their heads every time they hear the name “Buena Vista Social Club”
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