Salsa
Synopsis
"The girls like them chocolate-brown. If you're not a Cuban, you're out! "
Rémi Bonnet, 24, a brilliant performer of Chopin, outrages his family and his teacher when he gives up an international career to play the music he has always loved - Cuban music.
He leaves Toulouse and goes to Paris where to his surprise he finds that no one wants a Frenchman in a salsa band.
In a city where most undocumented aliens want to become French, Rémi Bonnet deliberately takes on the identity, accent and dark complexion of Felipe, his Cuban friend, in order to blend into the Paris latino community. And when old Barreto, seeing him in this Cuban disguise, hears him play-ing salsa music, he gives him a chance : Rémi will teach salsa dancing at the Casa Cubana...
This is where he meets Nathalie, a shy girl who becomes a bomb on the dance floor …
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Actors (17)
Production and distribution (5)
- Executive Producer : Vertigo Productions
- Co-productions : M6 Films, Universal Pictures International France
- Foreign production company : Mate Production
- Film exports/foreign sales : SND
- French distribution : Universal Pictures International France
Full credits (18)
- Executive Producers : Aïssa Djabri, Farid Lahouassa, Manuel Munz
- Screenwriters : Joyce Buñuel, Jean-Claude Carrière
- Director of Photography : Javier Aguirresarobe
- Music Composers : Sierra Maestra, Jean-Marie Sénia
- Assistant directors : Stéphane Le Coz, Thierry Mauvoisin
- Editor : Nicole Saunier
- Sound Recordist : Gilles Ortion
- Costume designer : Christine Jacquin
- Assistant Operators : Christophe Lapalus, Philippe Ramdane
- Camera Operator : Roger Dorieux
- Production Manager : Éric Hubert
- Press Attachés (film) : Laurette Monconduit, Mary Anne Kiremidjian
- Sound Editor : Christian Dior
- Continuity supervisor : Zoé Zurstrassen
- Production Designer : Jean Bauer
- Sound Mixer : Patrick Ghislain
- Still Photographer : Guy Ferrandis
- Location Manager : Thierry Cretagne
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Comedy
- Themes : Dance
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : Spain, France
- Original French-language productions : Yes
- Nationality : Majority French (Spain, France)
- Production year : 1999
- French release : 09/02/2000
- Runtime : 1 h 40 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 95.160
- Visa issue date : 28/01/2000
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
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About
If I’d lived in Hollywood during the 1940s, I would surely have made musicals. Living in Paris in the year 2000, I’ve had the luck to make “Salsa,” a film that allowed me to express my passion for Cuban music and dance, while raising an issue that deeply concerns me: Europe’s zenophobia. Judging from encouraging international sales figures, the film has achieved its goal – getting across the borders.
Joyce Bunuel, Director
