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Rumba

  • 20082008
  • 1h 17m
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6.8/10
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Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon in Rumba (2008)
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Teachers in a rural school, happy couple Fiona and Dom have a common passion: Latin Dancing. One night, after a glorious dance competition, they have a car accident and see their lives turn ... Read allTeachers in a rural school, happy couple Fiona and Dom have a common passion: Latin Dancing. One night, after a glorious dance competition, they have a car accident and see their lives turn upside down. Rumba or how optimism and humour can overcome fatality!Teachers in a rural school, happy couple Fiona and Dom have a common passion: Latin Dancing. One night, after a glorious dance competition, they have a car accident and see their lives turn upside down. Rumba or how optimism and humour can overcome fatality!
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    • Dominique Abel
    • Fiona Gordon
    • Bruno Romy
    • Dominique Abel
    • Fiona Gordon
    • Bruno Romy
  • Stars
    • Dominique Abel
    • Fiona Gordon
    • Philippe Martz
    • Dominique Abel
    • Fiona Gordon
    • Bruno Romy
    • Dominique Abel
    • Fiona Gordon
    • Bruno Romy
  • Stars
    • Dominique Abel
    • Fiona Gordon
    • Philippe Martz
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    • 11User reviews
    • 40Critic reviews
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    Dominique Abel
    Dominique Abel
    • Dom
    Fiona Gordon
    • Fiona
    Philippe Martz
    • Gérard
    Bruno Romy
    Bruno Romy
    • Le voleur de pain au chocolat
    Clément Morel
    • Eliot
    Thérèse Fisher
    • L'infirmière
    Claire Dubien
    • La boulangère
    Tatiana Gueroult
    • La petite fille de la plage
    Michel Valognes
    • Le conducteur de bus
    Yohan Faure
    Yohan Faure
    • Le piéton
    Louis Lecouvreur
    • Le portier
    Stéphane Balls
    • Le patron du bar
    Odile de Coligny
    • Une institutrice
    Richard Carpentier
    • Instituteur
    Pascal Vénara
    • Instituteur
    Morgan Ade
    • Elève de Fiona
    Ophélie Anfry
    • Une femme sur la place
    William Ardley
    • Danseur
      • Dominique Abel
      • Fiona Gordon
      • Bruno Romy
      • Dominique Abel
      • Fiona Gordon
      • Bruno Romy
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      French visa # 119014.
    • Soundtracks
      Son Al Son
      Written by Portilla de la Luz

      Performed by Orquesta Aragón featuring Cheo Feliciano

      Copyright by Seemsa, 1999 Lusafrica (courtesy of Lusafrica)

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    7/10
    Light-as-a-feather charmer
    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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    • Nov 1, 2009

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      • September 10, 2008 (France)
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      • Belgium
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      • Ancien hôpital militaire, Site René Lebas, Cherbourg-Octeville, Manche, France
    • Production companies
      • MK2 Productions
      • Courage Mon Amour
      • Radio Télévision Belge Francophone (RTBF)
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    • 1 hour 17 minutes
      • Color
      • Dolby SR

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