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10 September 2008 (France)
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Teachers in a rural school, happy couple Fiona and Dom have a common passion: Latin Dancing. One night...
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DVD Playhouse--September 2009
(From The Hollywood Interview. 26 September 2009, 1:01 PM, PDT)
[DVD Review] Rumba
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(From The Hollywood Interview. 26 September 2009, 1:01 PM, PDT)
[DVD Review] Rumba
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Light-as-a-feather charmer
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Cast
(Credited cast)| Dominique Abel | ... | Dom | |
| Fiona Gordon | ... | Fiona | |
| Philippe Martz | ... | Gérard | |
| Bruno Romy | ... | Le voleur de pain au chocolat | |
| Clément Morel | |||
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Morgan Ade | ... | Elève de Fiona | |
| Ophélie Anfry | ... | Une femme sur la place | |
| William Ardley | ... | Danseur | |
| Emmanuelle-Camille Argentin | ... | Danseuse | |
| Stéphane Balls | ... | Le patron du bar | |
| Baptiste Baudu | ... | Gens de la plage | |
| Bruno Baudu | ... | Gens de la plage | |
| Jacqueline Baudu | ... | Gens de la plage | |
| Léonie Blandin | ... | Elève de Fiona | |
| Michael Calvez | ... | Elève de Fiona | |
| Richard Carpentier | ... | Instituteur | |
| Andrée Cimagane | ... | Elève de Fiona | |
| Arthur Clément | ... | Elève de Tom | |
| Annabelle Cocollos | ... | Danseuse | |
| René-Pierre Cocollos | |||
| Cléo Cornet | ... | Gens de la plage | |
| Cyrille Cornillot | ... | Danseur | |
| Laura Couderc | ... | Gens de la plage | |
| Brice Coursin | ... | Elève de Fiona | |
| Claire Crozat | ... | Danseuse | |
| Nicolas Darques | ... | Passant dans le fil rouge | |
| Odile de Coligny | ... | Une institutrice | |
| Alex Deshaires | ... | Elève de Tom | |
| Bernard Desmares | ... | Danseur | |
| Bernadette Desvergez | ... | Danseuse | |
| Elise Doucet | ... | Elève de Fiona | |
| Claire Dubien | ... | La boulangère | |
| Evelyne Dutut | ... | Passant dans le fil rouge | |
| Jean-Claude Enault | ... | Elève de Tom | |
| Yohan Faure | ... | Le piéton | |
| Agnes Fauvel | ... | Gens de la plage | |
| Judith Fauvel | ... | Gens de la plage | |
| Justine Fernandez | ... | Danseuse | |
| Isabelle Feron | ... | Gens de la plage | |
| Annick Fessard | ... | Danseuse | |
| Thérèse Fichet | ... | Danseuse | |
| Thérèse Fisher | ... | L'infirmière | |
| Quentin Fraboulet | ... | Elève de Tom | |
| Maryvonne Furet | ... | Gens de la plage | |
| Valentine Gegard | ... | Elève de Fiona | |
| Alice Germain | ... | Gens de la plage | |
| Pénélope Germain | ... | Gens de la plage | |
| Audrey Godefroy | ... | Elève de Tom | |
| Marie-Claude Godefroy | ... | Danseuse | |
| Rafael Gonzalez | ... | Elève de Fiona | |
| Isabelle Guéroult | ... | Gens de la plage | |
| Noah Guéroult | ... | Gens de la plage | |
| Séverine Guéroult | ... | Gens de la plage | |
| Tatiana Gueroult | ... | La petite fille de la plage | |
| Yvonne Guilaine | ... | Danseuse | |
| Antoine Heutte | ... | Elève de Fiona | |
| Zoé Laine | ... | Elève de Fiona | |
| Charly Lebouc | ... | Elève de Fiona | |
| Pierre Lecoeur | ... | Danseur | |
| Jude Leconte | ... | Elève de Tom | |
| Louis Lecouvreur | ... | Le portier | |
| Florian Ledanois | ... | Elève de Tom | |
| Elisa Lefort | ... | Elève de Tom | |
| Lise-Anne Lefort | ... | Elève de Fiona | |
| Charline Legrand | ... | Elève de Tom | |
| Alicia Lemont | ... | Elève de Tom | |
| Emile Lemont | ... | Danseur | |
| Nathalie Lemont | ... | Danseuse | |
| Emilie Lenormand | ... | Elève de Tom | |
| Marie Lepetit | ... | Elève de Tom | |
| Fleur Leroux | ... | Danseuse | |
| André Levigouroux | ... | Elève de Fiona | |
| Noémie Moutel | |||
| Marcelle Oliveres | ... | Danseuse | |
| Anthony Pelisson | ... | Danseur | |
| Coline Piard | ... | Elève de Fiona | |
| Luc Potier | ... | Passant dans le fil rouge | |
| Thomas Régnier | ... | Danseur | |
| Kali Remy | ... | Danseuse | |
| Mika Remy | ... | Danseur | |
| Louise Renaud | ... | Elève de Fiona | |
| Valentin Rivière | ... | Elève de Fiona | |
| Chantal Romy | |||
| Emilie Roussel | ... | Passant dans le fil rouge | |
| Camille Saillard | ... | Elève de Fiona | |
| Michel Sanson | ... | Danseur | |
| Jean-Charles Scelles | ... | Passant dans le fil rouge | |
| Léa Soldridhine | ... | Elève de Fiona | |
| Jimmy Tanguy | ... | Elève de Tom | |
| Victor Tardiveau | ... | Elève de Fiona | |
| Robin Tirelle | ... | Elève de Fiona | |
| Jérôme Tollimer | ... | Elève de Tom | |
| Amélie Toupet | ... | Elève de Fiona | |
| Jean-Paul Travert | ... | Elève de Tom | |
| Michel Valognes | ... | Le conducteur de bus | |
| Pascal Vénara | ... | Instituteur | |
| Shirley Verin | ... | La livreuse | |
| Michel Vivier | |||
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France:77 min | Argentina:77 min
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Certification:
Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) |
Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) |
Argentina:Atp |
South Korea:12 |
France:U |
Germany:12 |
Singapore:NC-16
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Filmed in nine weeks in the Manche and in two weeks by the Cliffs of Etretat.
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Dom and Fiona, an adorable, if slightly nitwitted, married couple share a simple life as teachers in a rural French school. He teaches physical education and she teaches English. They have a sweet little house.
But they live to dance the Rumba! They have a mantle full of trophies to prove it. One evening, driving home from a dance contest with yet another cup, they crash their car trying to avoid a man trying to commit suicide. They end up in the hospital, she with a leg amputated at the knee and he with an inability to remember anything, including who Fiona is. Complications ensue.
If this seems like a strange set-up for a comedy, you have to realize that this comes from a very different comic tradition than American. That tradition is the films of Jacques Tati. The camera is immobile and the action moves in and out of the frame. The sets and scenery are iconic -- some cows in the frame show we are out of the town and in the countryside, etc. None of the comedy in this movie is gross, sexual, satirical or sarcastic. It is good-natured through and through.
As with Tati, we are treated to elaborately choreographed pratfalls and sight gags. In one scene, Fiona returns to her classroom on crutches and tries to put down her briefcase, but it gets entangled in her crutch and she keeps losing her balance while flailing wildly. You might not see a scene mocking a cripple like this played for fun in PC America. Again like Tati, this is close to being a silent movie, although there is some dialogue.
The highlights of the movie, though, are two absolutely enchanting fantasy dance sequences. In one, they are sitting together glumly on a street, she in her wheelchair, and their shadows begin to dance on the wall behind them. The other is on the surface of the foggy ocean.
If this movie does not put a smile on your face, you're made of stone.