Continue Being: Café Tacvba

Continue Being: Café Tacvba

2010 · 80 min · ★ 6.5 · Documentary, Music

A rock band traveling many places of the world, and on planes, buses, in hotels and dressing rooms we discover the creative process that brings them together, their friendship, frustrations and the desire of still being a rock band, the most important rock band in Mexico, on the year that they celebrate 20 years of being Café Tacvba.

Directed by Ernesto Contreras · Written by Ernesto Contreras

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