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The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Buena Vista Social Club is an award winning documentary that brought a certain style of Cuban music to a wider audience outside Cuba. Musicians some of them who had not performed for some years saw their career surge again.All because musician Ry Cooder worked with some local musicians in Cuba and this documentary directed by Wim Wenders shot on video cross cuts interviews with some of the performers, concerts given in Amsterdam and New York as well as the recording of a solo album by Ibrahim Ferrer.Ferrer is the shining star here. He was called the Cuban 'Nat King Cole,' he is reflective when he talks and dazzling when he performs.Others who feature is a pianist named Ruben Gonzalez, 80 years old at the time, classically trained and had not played for years due to arthritis but plays piano with boundless energy. Compay Segundo, a guitarist and singer, Omara Portuondo who accompanies Ferrer on some of the songs.I was taken aback that this film was shot in brightly lit video, some of the footage looked too plain like it was meant to be a television documentary. Some times you just want to hear the songs rather than it being interrupted and I think we could had done without the musicians looking at tacky souvenir shops and admiring life in the USA.

"Buena Vista Social Club" is a 100-minute movie from 1999, so it will soon have its 20th anniversary. But sadly this also means that most of the people you see in here have died already because they were already pretty old when this film got made. But first things first. The writer and director is German filmmaker Wim Wenders, but if you know a bit about him, you also know that there is always a multi-cultural touch to his films and the result here is that, despite one of the producing countries being Germany, there is no German language in this film, but it is all in English and Spanish. This is the story of a bunch of fairly old Cuban musicians who were pretty famous when they were younger, but turned into oblivion in the last decades. Nick Gold and Wim Wenders reunite them (the ones still alive) with their project here and they make music again together, such as Compay Segundo, the most known from the bunch perhaps.The result of this is a music documentary that won many many awards all over the planet and was also nominated for an Oscar (first nomination for Wenders), where it lost to a political documentary about the Olympic Games 1972. But you could call this film here also a political documentary as the political developments in Cuba in the last 50 years or more were frequent and constant and relevant in terms of global politics and there are many references in it from start to finish. If you have more of an interest into the country of Cuba from the political perspective, then you will certainly enjoy this film even more than I did. This does not mean of course that I did not enjoy it. The music is pretty nice, catchy and fun to listen to and the old guys with their quirks and all the stories and anecdotes they tell are equally fun to listen to. i enjoyed the watch and even if I would not call it a great film, it was thoroughly entertaining and it is (in terms of the subject) exactly what one would expect from Wenders. Worth checking out.

This is my first post-WINGS OF DESIRE Wenders movie, and despite all the hype around it at the time, my first experience with the music of the Buena Vista Social Club. The music itself is fantastic, featuring memorable and rich songs with accomplished musicianship and great passion. It was a pleasure to spend time with the players and learn a little bit (unfortunately, not a whole lot) about their lives and careers. However, the cinematography is simply awful. Undoubtedly there are limitations involved with filming in Cuba, but the use of early digital video cameras gives the movie a cheap, amateurish, washed-out look. It's very unpleasant to behold, especially with the shaky camera-work. It feels like it was all done rather haphazardly with little thought. You're probably better off just buying the CD.

Most people don't seem to have seen the movie from the very beginning. Cooder and Wenders were in Cuba to film with some Japanese Musicans who had problems with their visas or whatever and didn't make it in time, so they just went to look for some local musicians in order not to waste their time in Cuba. The revelation and worldwide success of these oldtimers was by pure chance and not by design. In my eyes that makes it more 'documentary' than any preconceived plans that other such movies had. They called off the artists from whatever jobs or duties they were doing at that exact time. Ibrahim Ferrer for example was shining shoes at that time and didn't even get the time to shower before they recorded the album.Give the guys a break!