Salsa
2000 · 100 MIN · IMDB 6.2 · 681 VOTES · DIR. Joyce Buñuel
Overview
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?
Dialogue Timeline — 1,109 lines
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00:01:04 Thank you, Miss Clemniter.
00:08:29 No, you play great.
00:12:07 Who are you?
00:14:54 Turn around!
00:17:46 Salsa lessons?
00:21:56 He just got a promotion.
00:24:16 When we have Paris's finest caterer!
00:26:48 ln Old Havana, home of the rumba!
00:30:12 Been in Paris long?
00:35:49 That teacher's sleazy.
00:38:35 Dance, show me!
00:42:19 For good?
00:46:03 Disposable diapers... for the ninos.
00:48:38 l don't believe in racial purity.
00:50:48 Castro, the revolution. You know the rest.
00:53:32 You won't make it.
00:55:48 Blacks want to be French, you want to be black!
00:59:12 Thanks.
01:08:15 Who taught you to dance like that?
01:12:54 l'm a santera, of course l know!
01:19:52 l should shut up now?
01:24:21 l hope the baby's OK. Sure...
01:26:34 Ten grand!
01:34:51 Go to it, Remi!