Rumba (2008)
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Reviews Counted:22
Fresh:19
Rotten:3
Average Rating:6.7/10
Synopsis: Fiona (Fiona Gordon) and Dom (Dominique Abel) are schoolteachers with a passion for Latin dancing. Though they're quite gawky and freshly scrubbed in the classroom, on the dance floor they are... [More]
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Reviews for Rumba
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 4/5 |
It's impossible not to love these weirdos. Full Review |
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The story plays out with an absolute minimum of dialogue, and the visual gags are highly inventive. In a comedy market dominated by crudity, sarcasm, and smug pop-culture references, laughs this pure hit like lightning. Full Review |
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 2.5/4 |
It’s not terrifically funny, but then how could it be? The influence of Jacques Tati abides in the material, without his sunniness. Full Review |
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3/5 |
The comedy is blackish at times, but is always informed by the film’s essential spirit, which is cheerful bordering on cutesy. Full Review |
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Funny, inventive, extremely touching and never cruel. It flirts with tragedy, without becoming morbid. Full Review |
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3/5 |
This charming, affectionately crafted and gleefully unfashionable comic miniature from writing/directing troupe Abel, Gordon and Romy slips down a treat. Full Review |
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4/5 |
The film combines a loony tunes cruelty with the precise comic choreography of the great movie clowns. Full Review |
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4/5 |
You will need to be a little patient and indulgent with this brand of comedy, but its sweetness of nature will win you round. Full Review |
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4/5 |
From the moments of bravura comedy to the tightly plotted series of coincidences, Rumba is a reminder just how powerful a medium it can be. Full Review |
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3/5 |
The film’s innate sense of humour and the naïve poetry of its making, which admittedly sometimes descends into whimsy, provide a resolutely optimistic feel. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Remember the comedy of Jacques Tati? Okay, how's about the wordless wackiness of Benny Hill? That is what the filmmaking trio of Rumba ape in this often laugh out loud funny romcom. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon prove worthy heirs to the gangly genius of Jacques Tati in this surreal comic gem. Full Review |
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3/5 |
The film could be cleverer, funnier, better-timed. Où sont les Tatis d’antan? But Gordon and Abel – she an anorexic Tilda Swinton, he a slightly squashed version of John Gordon Sinclair (Gregory’s Girl) – are appealing comic presences. Full Review |
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Some of the elaborate routines of escalating chaos raise a sympathetic smile but mostly Rumba feels like being forced to watch a mime artist for an hour and quarter. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Likeable, offbeat and frequently very funny Franco-Belgian comedy, though its Jacques Tati-style buffoonery occasionally misfires and might prove too whimsical for some tastes. Full Review |
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4/5 |
A droll, near wordless and, at times, ingeniously staged comedy. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Despite having the bleakest of themes, this charming absurdist treat will put a Tati-esque skip in your step. Full Review |
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C |
I might have enjoyed Rumba more if the filmmakers' enthusiasm was reigned in. A tighter, much shorter bit of true whimsy could have been the result. Full Review |
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B |
Jacques Tati with dance! Full Review |
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3/4 |
* If you've ever laughed at and revelled in the films of Buster Keaton or Harold Lloyd or Jacques Tati, then Rumba will seem a delightful blast from the silent past. Full Review |
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