Perry Kate Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Prismark10 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.

Foivos Vlahos One could describe it as a life lesson. A seminar for anyone involved in any art form. The internal recognition and peace with no need for wide acceptance, glory or money. Giants of the musical firmament that their food was the greatness of their soul and their love for music. Human sensitivity and romanticism at the height of their beauty. Their gold, the human values, honor and dignity. Lovers of love and truth. All these huge musicians appearing give us a life lesson. Simplicity as something more precious than all the treasures of the world. Wenders once again shows its quality. And a big thanks to Ry Cooder who brought to light these diamonds of world civilization.

Lee Eisenberg In Wim Wenders's "Buena Vista Social Club", Ry Cooder goes to Cuba to bring some of the island's great musicians to the world's attention. Obviously the best part of the documentary is the music, but we also get to learn about the singers' lives. One of the neatest scenes is when the club goes to New York and performs in Carnegie Hall. During that sequence, Ibrahim Ferrer and Eliades Ochoa go to the top of a building and have a look at the city, and we even catch a shot of the World Trade Center*.But more than anything, it's great to hear this music. Ferrer, Ochoa, Compay Segundo, Omara Portuondo, and the rest show us that Cuba's culture will never die.*It will soon be the tenth anniversary of the attack.

nospam01-903-775157 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!