Salsa (2000 film)
Salsa or ¡Salsa! is a 2000 French-Spanish romance film. The film was directed by Joyce Buñuel, and stars Vincent Lecoeur, Christianne Gout, and Catherine Samie.
| ¡Salsa! | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Joyce Buñuel |
| Produced by | Aïssa Djabri Farid Lahouassa Manuel Munz |
| Written by | Joyce Buñuel Jean-Claude Carrière |
| Starring | Christianne Gout Vincent Lecoeur Catherine Samie Michel Aumont Roland Blanche |
| Music by | Yuri Buenaventura Sierra Maestra Jean-Marie Sénia |
| Distributed by | United International Pictures , France |
Release date | January 22, 2000 |
Running time | 100 min |
| Country | Spain, France |
| Language | French |
Synopsis
A brilliant classical pianist, 24-year-old Rémi Bonnet, renounces his career for his true passion: salsa. In Paris he takes dance lessons from an old salsa master, and decides to teach salsa himself in order to be accepted in a Cuban music band. By artificially darkening his skin with UV light treatments in a local tanning salon and faking a Latin accent he tries to "become" a genuine Cuban.
He meets the beautiful young Nathalie who becomes his student, and the results are romantically inevitable. She finds Rémi very seductive, much against the wishes of her father and her fiancé. But the deception goes wrong when she finds out who the man she thinks is her true love really is.
Cast
- Christianne Gout - Nathalie
- Vincent Lecoeur - Rémi
- Catherine Samie - Letty
- Michel Aumont - Monsieur Redele
- Roland Blanche - Henry
- Alexis Valdés - Félipe
- Elisa Maillot - Françoise (as Eliza Maillot)
- Aurora Basnuevo - La Goya
- Estéban Socrates Cobas Puente - Barreto
- Christiane Cohendy - Madame Redele
- Elisabeth Margoni - Madame de Stael
- Naím Thomas - Stéphane
- Pierre-Arnaud Juin - Jean-Charles
- Michel Debrane - Blondin (as Michel Debrannes)
- Olivier Bernard - L'appariteur
- Sylvain Corthay - Le directeur du Conservatoire
- Isabelle Coutançais - La pianiste
- Annabelle Février - La mère
- Jean-Luc Horvais - Le père (as Jean-Luc Horvay)
- Marie-Christine Leclaire - Femme U.V. (as Marie Christine Leclaire)
- Jéhan Pages -voix Stéphane (voice)
- Stéphane Slima - L'inspecteur de police
- Brigitte Tourtchaninoff- Assistante du Directeur du Conservatoire