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Writers:
Dominique Abel (writer)
Fiona Gordon (writer)
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Release Date:
10 September 2008 (France) more
Genre:
Comedy more
Plot:
Teachers in a rural school, happy couple Fiona and Dom have a common passion: Latin Dancing. One night... more | add synopsis
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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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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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Runtime:
France:77 min | Argentina:77 min
Country:
France | Belgium
Language:
French
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby SR
Certification:
Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) | Argentina:Atp | South Korea:12 | France:U | Germany:12 | Singapore:NC-16
Filming Locations:
Ancien hôpital militaire, Site René Lebas, Cherbourg-Octeville, Manche, Basse-Normandie, France more
Company:
MK2 Productions more

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Filmed in nine weeks in the Manche and in two weeks by the Cliffs of Etretat. more
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Light-as-a-feather charmer, 1 November 2009
7/10
Author: dave-sturm from Baltimore

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.

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