From Cuba to the Blues for Wim Wenders CANNES, May 19 (Reuters) - Wim Wenders put Cuban music on the world stage with "The Buena Vista Social Club." Now he is to set to do the same for the blues with "The Soul of a Man." The German director's latest documentary is a tribute to blues musicians who influenced generations of singers from Cream to Lou Reed. "These songs mean the world to me," he said. "I felt there was more truth in them than in any book I have read about America or in any movie I had ever seen." "I've tried to describe, more like a poem than in a documentary what moved me so much," he added in a statement. He picked three blues legends to profile -- Blind Willie Johnson, Skip James and J.B. Lenoir -- and uses the voice of "Matrix" co-star Laurence Fishburne to tell the story. Film industry trade paper Variety was sufficiently impressed to put a review on the front page of its Cannes edition. "This hugely enjoyable film...has the stuff to go way beyond music fans, doing for the blues what the director did for Cuban music in the 'The Buena Vista Social Club,"' it said. Wenders argues that that these "songs of poor men" will survive, making the point with shots of the Voyager spaceship traveling beyond the solar system. Among the items on board Voyager -- for the future perusal of any aliens it may encounter -- are blues recordings. Reuters