Salsa
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At age 24, Rémi Bonnet, brilliant pianist, abandons Chopin and Toulouse to play the music he has secretly loved for years - Salsa! He heads for Paris, the salsa capital of Europe, only to discover to his great surprise, that nobody wants a white boy in Latin band! Felipe, his Cuban friend, sets him straight: " You don't have the Latino look, muchacho! Today, if your are not Cubano or Columbiano, you are out!". Undaunted, Rémi deliberately takes on the identity, accent and complexion of an unemployed alien in a city where most foreigners will do almost anything to become French. Barreto, 75, the legendary Cuban composer, who is about to close down the once famous Casa Cubana, offers Rémi a job giving dance lessons to the locals. It is here that Rémi falls in love with Nathalie. Her family's "secrets and lies" reveal parental links to Barreto. Do these links explain why this shy beauty ought to be a bomb on the dance floor?
Status: Released
Released Date: 2000-01-22
Runtime: 100 mins
Director: Joyce Buñuel
Writer: Joyce Buñuel, Jean-Claude Carrière, Peter Hewitt
Spoken language: Français
Genres: Music, Comedy, Romance
Original title: Salsa
Production Companies: Canal+ España, Eurimages, M6 Films
Production Countries: France, Spain
Cast
Vincent Lecœur
Christianne Gout
Catherine Samie
Michel Aumont
Roland Blanche
Alexis Valdés
Elisa Maillot
Aurora Basnuevo
Estéban Socrates Cobas Puente
Christiane Cohendy
Naím Thomas
Olivier Bénard
Sylvain Corthay
Isabelle Coutançais
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