The film actually emerged in response to an album headlined by the forgotten, velvety Cuban crooner Ibrahim Ferrer put together by Ry Cooder in 1997, two years before the film was released. ![]() Wenders has made films in places as varied as Portugal ( Der Stand der Dinge, 1982), Japan ( Tokyo-Ga, 1985) and Australia ( Until the End of the World, 1991).Ī musical documentary, Buena Vista Social Club (1999) intercuts fascinating talking-heads footage and images of the old, by now decaying lustre of Havana (so vivid that one can almost inhale the smell of head-spinning rum and rich tobacco), with wonderful concert material from European venues and Carnegie Hall to great overall effect. ![]() Unlike Fellini, however, who preferred the home comforts of his beloved Cinècitta, Wenders is a truly international filmmaker. The road movie is, of course, more of an American trope than a genre, a modern combination of the Western genre on the one hand, and the lyrical, fleshed-out travelogues by Robert Flaherty – which prompted John Grierson to coin the term documentary when he saw the former’s Moana in 1926 – on the other (1). ![]() Among European filmmakers of the highest order, only Federico Fellini has had an identification with travel and the road as metaphors for life remotely as strong as Wim Wenders.
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