A FILM BY DOMINIQUE ABEL, FIONA GORDON AND BRUNO ROMY

DIRECTORS FORTNIGHT CANNES FILM FESTIVAL 2008
OFFICIAL SELECTION LEEDS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2008

It’s Jacques Tati meets Mr Bean in this wonderful Belgo-French slapstick comedy that has seduced film festival audiences around the world directed by and starring Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon and Bruno Romy. The film opened in France in September 2008 and has had over 100,000 admissions in 4 weeks. It will open in London and key cities 31st July, 2009.

Fiona and Dom are teachers at a rural school. They share a passion for Latin dance and they’re deeply in love. On weekends, they enter dance competitions around the country. Their house is crammed with trophies.

One night, as they are coming back from a competition, they encounter a man on a clumsy suicide mission, standing in the middle of the road. They swerve to avoid him, crash into a wall and their life is thrown into turmoil…

Far from being a bleak drama, RUMBA has a resolutely optimistic feel, which has characterized this directorial trio since their first feature, ICEBERG.

In keeping with the great silent comics, Abel, Gordon and Romy depict a stylized and colourful world – for this story of thwarted love punctuated by flashes of musical comedy.

CAST 
Dominique Abel
Fiona Gordon
Philippe Martz
Clément Morel
Bruno Romy

CREW
Screenplay and Direction  Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Bruno Romy
Photography  Claire Childéric
First Assistant Cameraman  Jean-Christophe Leforestier
Sound  Fred Meert, Gilles Laurent
Sets  Nicolas Girault
Set Dressing  Laura Couderc
Costumes  Claire Dubien
Editing  Sandrine Deegen
Sound Editing  Fred Meert, Hélène Lamy au Rousseau
Sound Mixing  Manu de Boissieu
Foley Artist  Philippe Van Leer
Assistant Director  Pierrick Vautier
Script Supervisor  Cécile Bergès
Location Manager  Isabel Hébert
Production Manager  Elise Bisson
Executive Producers  Claire Dornoy, Abel & Gordon
Development & Promotion  Marina Festré
Produced by  Marin Karmitz, Nathanaël Karmitz, Charles Gillibert, Abel & Gordon
Associate Producer  Arlette Zylberberg