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

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…