Salsa 24 years old

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?

Credits

Salsa Cast

Name Character
Christianne Gout She was 26, now 51 years old as Nathalie
Vincent Lecoeur as Rémi Bonnet

Salsa Crew

Name Department
Joyce Buñuel as Director. She was 58 (now 82) years old Directing
Salsa poster
Salsa (24 years)

  • Release day: Saturday, January 22, 2000
  • Runtime: 100 minutes