Screening as part of a/perture’s Summer Music Festival, sponsored by Blanco Tackabery. 

In this fascinating Oscar-nominated documentary, American guitarist Ry Cooder brings together a group of legendary Cuban folk musicians (some in their 90s) to record a Grammy-winning CD in their native city of Havana. The result is a spectacular compilation of concert footage from the group’s gigs in Amsterdam and New York City’s famed Carnegie Hall, with director Wim Wenders (Paris, Texas, Perfect Days) capturing not only the music — but also the musicians’ life stories.

“‘Buena Vista Social Club’ is also the most joyous celebration of the sights, sounds and aromas of Latin culture by sympathetic northern outsiders since the once very highly praised but today rather underrated French/Brazilian Academy Award and Palme d’Or winner ‘Black Orpheus’, Marcel Camus, 1959.” ~ Inge Fossen, Senses of Cinema

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