Salsa y Amor

Salsa The Movie is really one of the most rare and most amazing movies about Latin dances.Watching that movie means getting charged with Latin spirits and feel for dancing.It describes the arduous life of a french artist whose passion the music itself becomes salsa dance passion. He start studying the main steps of salsa and soon he becomes sophisticated salsa dancer.In the next scene he mets the beautiful Natalie who is also dancing salsa. Together they start training for a large salsa competition. The watchers can really feel the rhythm by watching the steps of the couple. This feeling also comes from the uncountable dance scenes in the movie. The movie ends with a lot of spirits. You should really sea this film. Amazing.

When I began to watch it I had a little doubt in my mind since the last supposed salsa movie didn't contain much salsa. But all my doubts was blown away after the three first minutes!! This movie has really captured the essence of what salsa is to me, a burning for the music! The dancing isn't incredible, there is a lot of nice moves, but nothing that really gets you going. But when Remi plays the piano, you just want to be there with him and sing and dance! I have actually started practicing playing salsa on the piano just because of this movie! If you've lost your glow, your inspiration, watch this movie, it may inspire you like it inspired me.

Cuban emigrants are now everywhere in the world, and not all live in US. These emigrants have been able to spread Cuban music successfully in several European countries as Spain, Italy and France. Classes for learning dancing salsa are now a good business in these countries. The present film shows to what extent this music is accepted by local people and how contagious it is. The plot is about a young guy, pianist from Toulousse, who felt in love with another French young lady and good dancer of salsa. He saw that Nathalie only likes Cuban people and its music, so for this reason he decided to present himself as a Cuban young man under the name of Mongo. At the end everything was obviously discovered, Nathalie knew that he was as French as her, and she finally accepted him as he was. The film had the participation of some Cuban artists, among them Alexis Valdes already based in Spain, who showed how to dance good salsa, and Aurora Basnuevo, who is still working for radio and TV in Cuba. Here she played the role of Cuban Yoruba Santera. Cuban nostalgia is well noted in the film, in one scene Valdes told Mongo that Cubans'smile and laugh are good to hide their pain behind it. If you like good music you must see this film, here it is mainly coming from the Cuban group Sierra Maestra.

"Sala" is an excellent film!!! You must see it. It makes you feel so good. The music is great, the dance is greater! I recommend you to see it!!! All you need is salsa - the emotional, passionate and dynamic dance of Cuba!

After having red the overwhelming reviews this film got in my country, I but wanted to see it. But - what a disappointment! To see a bunch of one-dimensional characters in a plot that lacks of originality is not worth the money and the time to spend. I sometimes wonder about the filmcritics in switzerland.