Salsa
22/01/2000
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?
Movie Information
Vincent Lecœur
as Rémi Bonnet
Christianne Gout
as Nathalie
Catherine Samie
as Letty
Michel Aumont
as Monsieur Redele
Roland Blanche
as Henry
Alexis Valdés
as Félipe
Elisa Maillot
as Françoise
Aurora Basnuevo
as La Goya
Estéban Socrates Cobas Puente
as Barreto
Christiane Cohendy
as Madame Redele
Naím Thomas
as Stéphane
Olivier Bénard
as L'appariteur
Sylvain Corthay
as Le directeur du Conservatoire
Isabelle Coutançais
as La pianiste
Michel Debrane
as Blondin
Annabelle Février
as La mère
Jean-Luc Horvais
as Le père
Marie-Christine Leclaire
as Femme U.V.
Elisabeth Margoni
as Mme de Stael
Jehan Pagès
as Stéphane (voice)
Rébecca Régina
as Danseuse
Stéphane Slima
as L'inspecteur de police
Brigitte Tourtchaninoff
as Assistante du Directeur du Conservatoire
