Rumba la vie: French comedy about Tony, a man in his mid-fifties, who regrets not having taken care of his daughter. Disguised as a dance student in her rumba class, he finally tries to get to know her.
Plot and background
School bus driver Tony (Franck Dubosc) spends his days on the streets of the Parisian countryside with a fag in the corner of his mouth and his evenings on the couch, dreaming of great freedom in faraway America. His lonely everyday life is abruptly interrupted by a heart attack, however, which makes Tony painfully aware of the transience of life. Tony realises that no one would really miss him when it is over. So the grumpy loner decides to track down his daughter Maria (Louna Espinosa) in Paris, where she works as a dance teacher and whose mother he abandoned before Maria was born. Without revealing himself, he wants to get closer to his daughter and get to know her. So he signs up for her rumba class under a false name. But Maria expects talent and commitment from her course participants. With his neighbour Fanny (Marie-Philomène Nga), Tony trains day and night in hip swings, passion poses and cha-cha rhythms and gets himself a place in Maria’s rumba class. But can years of paternal absence be danced away so easily?
“The Rumba Therapy” – background, cast, cinema release
French director and leading actor Franck Dubosc (“Love Makes Everything Happen”) brings the joie de vivre of Latin American dancing from the dance floor to the big screen with “The Rumba Therapy”. As maverick Tony, Dubosc can be seen alongside Louna Espinosa (“The Red Band Society”), Jean-Pierre Darroussin (“The Hearts of Men”), Marie-Philomène Nga (“Mistakenly Similar”), Karina Marimon (“Nothing to Give Away”) and scandalous author Michel Houellebecq in the guest role of a cardiologist-trained shaman. The French feel-good comedy will be released in cinemas here on 22 June 2023.
