"Thank you"....Wim Wenders and Ry Cooder need to be simply told "Thank you".
These two special men have let the world into the soul of the "lost" Cuba. Both through the stunning glimpses of the Cuban landscape and the heart warming stories of these world class musicians we gain insight into how this country only 90 miles from the USA has transformed dramatically since the 1950's. I saw this film with my girlfriend, who is a first generation Cuban, and she was moved to tears. The thought that these "special" men held the end of who she really was made her extremely sad. Those men hold something so special.....and Wenders and Cooder need to be thanked 1,000 times for sharing this with not only generations of Cubans to come, but the whole world. We are able to share in the music of an island nation whose beauty is ready to explode upon the rest of the world.
I will never forget the Cuban Nat King Cole....what a tremendous compliment.....my only problem with that statement is that maybe Nat Cole is the American Ibrahim Ferrer.
These two special men have let the world into the soul of the "lost" Cuba. Both through the stunning glimpses of the Cuban landscape and the heart warming stories of these world class musicians we gain insight into how this country only 90 miles from the USA has transformed dramatically since the 1950's. I saw this film with my girlfriend, who is a first generation Cuban, and she was moved to tears. The thought that these "special" men held the end of who she really was made her extremely sad. Those men hold something so special.....and Wenders and Cooder need to be thanked 1,000 times for sharing this with not only generations of Cubans to come, but the whole world. We are able to share in the music of an island nation whose beauty is ready to explode upon the rest of the world.
I will never forget the Cuban Nat King Cole....what a tremendous compliment.....my only problem with that statement is that maybe Nat Cole is the American Ibrahim Ferrer.