Buena Vista Social Club: Adios [Audio: Spanish] 2017 Watch Free in HD

Ibrahim Ferrer

Omara Portuondo

Manuel 'Guajiro' Mirabal

Guajirito Mirabal

Wim Wenders

14 August 1945, Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Ry Cooder

15 March 1947, Los Angeles, California, USA

Juan de Marcos González

Rubén González

May 26, 1919 in Encrucijada, Santa Clara, Cuba

Lucy Walker

Time Out

The approach is pretty conventional, but the characters are so brilliant you'd struggle not to be swept up in it all.

October 18, 2017

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RogerEbert.com

Unfortunately, Lucy Walker's "Buena Vista Social Club: Adios" plays more like a well-intentioned but unsatisfying addendum to Wenders' movie and Cooder's recording.

May 26, 2017

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Radio Times

Many will have wondered what happened to the veteran Cuban musicians profiled in Wim Wenders's 1998 cult classic, Buena Vista Social Club, and Lucy Walker provides some of the answers in this genial if fitful documentary sequel.

December 21, 2017

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Times (UK)

... Cuba's geriatric music troupe get a touching send-off in Lucy Walker's hagiographic but moving documentary.

October 19, 2017

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Common Sense Media

Emotional, crowd-pleasing sequel to popular documentary.

June 08, 2017

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Chicago Sun-Times

Ultimately, Adios transcends politics and proves once again that music knows no boundaries.

May 26, 2017

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The Straits Times (Singapore)

Still, as nostalgia trips go - was 1999 almost two decades ago? - this offers a fairly even balance of news update, fan service and, as the title implies, a goodbye.

August 23, 2017

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Hollywood Reporter

After Adios, many longtime fans will want to chase the taste away with a stiff shot of the old stuff.

May 26, 2017

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Los Angeles Times

Despite any shackles, social or otherwise, music will always serve as a mode of liberation, an expression of love, and Buena Vista Social Club: Adios passionately asserts that idea.

May 26, 2017

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NPR

Adios is less engaging than Walker's earlier work, with little of the poeticism she displayed in Waste Land and The Crash Reel. It surely doesn't help that she's stuck picking through Wenders' leftovers ...

May 26, 2017

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Uproxx

Adios feels both disorganized and unnecessary, like an encore staged after the house lights have gone up and most of the audience has exited the building.

September 27, 2017

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Guardian

[A] thoughtful if somewhat scattered documentary ...

October 20, 2017

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