Salsa in the movies - Part 2
December 20, 2009
SALSA MOVIES (2001-present)
Summary: In Houston, the aspirant to photographer Amie (Annabeth Gish) receives a complete Salsa and Mambo dancing course from her close colleagues and friends as her wedding gift. Her wedding with the wealthy and arrogant Jason (Daniel Cosgrove) is close and she intends to dance Salsa in the feast. Amie meets the Porto Rican instructor Nicholas (Kamar de los Reyes), and she feels a great attraction for him. When Nicholas bet with his former mate Cristina (Tessie Santiago) that he would teach Amie to be a great dancer, they daily train together for long periods and they fall for each other. Amie breaks with Jason, but is not sure about with whom she really wants to stay. In the end, she realizes that her heart had Salsa and Mambo, instead of Country music.
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Summary: An American girl (Garai) and her parents arrive in Cuba right before the Revolution breaks out. She meets a local boy (Luna) who instantly notices her dancing abilities and romances her. But as Castro’s forces are forcing Americans to leave the country, will she stay or will she go?
Summary: The rise and fall of salsa singer, Héctor Lavoe (1946-1993), as told from the perspective of his wife Puchi, who looks back from 2002. In the early 1960s, Héctor arrives in New York from Ponce, Puerto Rico. Success comes quickly. “The more he grew as an artist,” Puchi says, “the more he sank as a person.” It’s a tale of talent – creating salsa with Willie Colón, with the Fania All Stars, and as a soloist – and a story of disintegration – fueled by drugs, alcohol, partying, and depression. Puchi’s voice – proud and querulous – dominates off-stage as Héctor’s does on.
Summary: Maya Chandhok lives a wealthy lifestyle in Delhi along with her parents. Refusing to buckle down to her mother’s demands to get married, she re-locates to Kolkata, obtains her MBA, and then goes to reside in Mumbai where she gets a job in a bank, and shares a flat with two room-mates, Zenobia and Neha. She meets with Sanjay and both fall in love. Then one day he dramatically and publicly dumps her. A few days later she meets with Rajeev Sharma, who is heartbroken after his fiancée, Pooja, dumped him to re-locate to America, and both are attracted to each other. She is delighted when he proposes to her, but her delight turns sour when he asks her to re-locate with him to Singapore, drop her career, and be a home-maker for the rest of her life. Maya must now make up her mind amidst chaos and heartbreak that also threaten to tear apart lives of both Neha and Zenobia, who are also dating Rajeev’s friends, Karan Kapoor and Shaji, while conservative Tyagraj, Rajeev’s pal, struggles with his feelings about a much liberated Caucasian co-worker, Pamela.
Release Date: USA 2008
Summary: As a child, Jamie Lesser watched ‘Strictly Ballroom’ ninety-seven times a day and dreamed of becoming a salsa dancer. But in ‘real life’, his social awkwardness, failed love life and severe near-sightedness got in his way. After insurmountable disappointments, he turns to his estranged sister, Lianne, a streetwise, self-proclaimed hip hop dancing dynamo, inspires him to follow his dream, reclaim his self-esteem and become what he was truly meant to be.
Release Date: USA 2009
Summary: Marlene, a New York City dance teacher, is driven to therapy by the increasingly neurotic men she meets. A vacation in the German Alps turns out to be her biggest challenge yet…
Release Date: USA 2009
Summary: A love story about two people meeting by chance in New York City. Pedro is a Salsa instructor and Rosa wants to learn how to dance salsa. Through the power of salsa dancing they find each other and also discover that their painful past is very much still in their present. Can They move on? Letting go of the past is not as easy as we think.
Coming soon…
Born to Salsa
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