Director: Joyce Sherman Bunuel
Cast: Vincent Lecoeur, Christianne Gout, Catherine Samie, Alexis Valdes
It is a plot that the Indian audiences would readily identify with. It is a love triangle, with impersonations, long-lost lovers, humour, sentiment, melodrama, songs and dances. 'Salsa' is a musical with some vibrant dancing, energetic foot-tapping music and some strong chemistry between the two lead players. This escapist fare by woman director Joyce Sherman Bunuel (a French film dubbed in English) is sure to keep the audiences' attention riveted on the screen for the one-and-a-half-hour of its running time.
Remi Bonnet, a French youth, a brilliant pianist in the making, dashes the hopes of his parents, abandons Chopin and Toulouse, and heads for Paris - the Salsa Capital of Europe - to play the music he had secretly loved for years - the fast beating Salsa. Realising soon enough that nobody wants a white youth in a Latin band, he changes his appearance and accent and passes off as a Cuban. He coaxes Barrerto, the 75- year-old legendary Cuban composer who is about to close his once famous Casa Cubana, to give him a job. That of teaching dancing lessons to the locals!
Remi falls in love with the shy Nathalie, who surprises herself and everyone else with her fiery volatile dancing. Nathalie's family secrets reveal a link with Barreto. Nathalie soon abandons her stuck-up fiancé for the more caring, sensitive, and full-of-life Remi. Remi's impersonation is discovered, but Nathalie after her initial feeling of betrayal, forgives him for it.
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