Salsa (2000)
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?
Director: Joyce Buñuel
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Vincent Lecœur as Rémi Bonnet |
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Christianne Gout as Nathalie |
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Catherine Samie as Letty |
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Michel Aumont as Monsieur Redele |
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Roland Blanche as Henry |
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Alexis Valdés as Félipe |
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Elisa Maillot as Françoise |
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Aurora Basnuevo as La Goya |
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Estéban Socrates Cobas Puente as Barreto |
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Christiane Cohendy as Madame Redele |
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Naím Thomas as Stéphane |
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Olivier Bénard as L'appariteur |
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Sylvain Corthay as Le directeur du Conservatoire |
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Isabelle Coutançais as La pianiste |
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Michel Debrane as Blondin |
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Annabelle Février as La mère |
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Jean-Luc Horvais as Le père |
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Marie-Christine Leclaire as Femme U.V. |
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Elisabeth Margoni as Mme de Stael |
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Jehan Pagès as Stéphane (voice) |
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Rébecca Régina as Danseuse |
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Stéphane Slima as L'inspecteur de police |
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Brigitte Tourtchaninoff as Assistante du Directeur du Conservatoire |
| Directing | Joyce Buñuel | Director |
| Writing | Joyce Buñuel | Writer |
| Writing | Jean-Claude Carrière | Writer |
| Writing | Peter Hewitt | Writer |
| Production | Aïssa Djabri | Producer |
| Production | Farid Lahouassa | Producer |
| Production | Manuel Munz | Producer |
| Production | Géraldine Polveroni | Producer's Assistant |
| Production | Stéphane Sorlat | Co-Producer |
| Production | Daniel Harroch | Co-Producer |
| Sound | Yuri Buenaventura | Music |
| Sound | Jean-Marie Sénia | Sound |
| Sound | Sierra Maestra | Sound |
| Camera | Guillermo Navarro | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Nicole Saunier | Editor |
| Production | Nora Habib | Casting |
| Production | Françoise Menidrey | Casting |
| Production | Mary Vernieu | Casting |
| Art | Jean Bauer | Production Design |
| Art | Anne-Charlotte Vimont | Set Decoration |
| Costume & Make-Up | Christine Jacquin | Costumer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Lydia Pujols | Makeup Designer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Joëlle Dominique | Hair Designer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Florence Vayssieres | Makeup Artist |
