SALSA MOVIES (1988- 2000)

Salsa (1988)

Director: Boaz Davidson

Summary: Kenny Ortega, the man behind the moves of the hit “Dirty Dancing,” choreographs the sizzling Latin excitement in this red-hot story of a passionate young dancer (Menudo’s Robby Rosa) who sets his sights on becoming the “Kings of Salsa.”

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Buena Vista Social Club (1999)

Director: Wim Wenders

Summary: A group of legendary Cuban musicians, some as old as their nineties, were brought together by Ry Cooder to record a CD. In this film, we see and hear some of the songs being recorded in Havana. There is also footage from concerts in Amsterdam and New York City’s Carnegie Hall. In addition, many of the individual musicians talk about their lives in Cuba and about how they got started in music.

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Born Romantic (2000)

Director: David Kane

Summary: Centered around a salsa club, three men pursue three women across London. Fergus is trying to find his ex-girlfriend, the elderly charmer Frankie the beautiful Eleanor and the robber Eddie is trying to find one of his victims, cemetery worker Jocelyn.

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Salsa (2000)

Director: Joyce Buñuel

Director: Joyce Buñuel

Summary: 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?

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