Poster for Salsa

Salsa

2000 1 hour 40 minutes
63/100

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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?

Released

22nd January 2000

26 years ago

Runtime

1 hour 40 minutes

Finishes at 3:22pm

Ratings and awards

1 win

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    6.2/10

  • TMDb Logo

    63%

  • FilmFlow Logo

    63%

Directed by

Joyce Buñuel

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Written by

Joyce Buñuel, Jean-Claude Carrière, Peter Hewitt

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