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‘Buena Vista Social Club: Adios’ is an Unfocused Portrait of a Changing Band in a Changing Cuba
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‘Buena Vista Social Club: Adios’ is an Unfocused Portrait of a Changing Band in a Changing Cuba

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Christopher Campbell
May 25, 2017
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Lucy Walker’s disappoints with her follow-up to the Wim Wenders classic.

Lucky Walker’s Buena Vista Social Club: Adios opens with a moment of recent history: audio of news reports announcing the death of Fidel Castro, juxtaposed with images of children playing on Cuban beaches. This sequence is followed by a tour of the grounds upon which the legendary B…

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