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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Buena Vista Social Club: Adios was released in 2017 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 19 reviews, giving Buena Vista Social Club: Adios (2017) an average rating of 70%.
Overall, cinema-goers marginally prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 80%, compared to film critics, who gave it a slightly lower average score of 72%.
With a score of 70%, Buena Vista Social Club: Adios is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2017, which stands at 59%.
Other movies from 2017 with similar scores include films like Beauty and the Beast, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle and American Made.
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