Buena Vista Social Club: Adios
Buena Vista Social Club: Adios
Overview
In 1996, Cuban bandleader Juan de Marcos Gonzalez, British producer Nick Gold, and American guitarist Ry Cooder convened in Havana to produce a Cuban-Malian collaboration. When the Malians couldn’t get visas, the team turned their attention to reviving a forgotten generation of legendary son cubano musicians and formed an on-the-fly ensemble: the Buena Vista Social Club. Two decades since that fateful first session, we catch up to these master musicians, as they reflect on the magical unfolding of their lives—from humble origins to the evolution and surprising revival of their careers, all against the backdrop of Cuba’s dramatic history. Brimming with unseen concert, rehearsal, and archival footage, this film is an emotional, shimmering celebration of music’s power to transcend age, ideologies, and class, and to connect us to each other through our souls.
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Cast
Ibrahim Ferrer
Omara Portuondo
Manuel 'Guajiro' Mirabal
Eliades Ochoa
Barbarito Torres
Guajirito Mirabal
Jesús 'Aguaje' Ramos
Crew
Lucy Walker
Andrew Baker
Enrique Chediak
Lucas Gath
Pablo Proenza
Tyler Temple Higgins
Robbie Adams
Christine Cowin
Zak Kilberg
Julian Cautherley
Victor Moyers
Asher Goldstein
Wim Wenders
Lucy Walker
Iz Web
Michael Cleaver