Rumba

Wry Gallic comedy. Dom (Dominique Abel) and Fiona (Fiona Gordon), an eccentric married couple, teach sports and English at a school in rural France, but reserve most of their enthusiasm for Latin dancing. Then, after a horrible car accident, he is left with amnesia and she loses a leg.

Nigel Andrews, Financial Times: At least the stars Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon use care and craft to set up comic sequences: the heroine's wooden leg catching fire and burning down a house (don't expect PC attitudes to disability), the shadows separating from their owners to perform a stylish rumba. The film could be cleverer, funnier, better-timed... But Gordon and Abel - she an anorexic Tilda Swinton, he a slightly squashed version of John Gordon Sinclair (Gregorys Girl) – are appealing comic presences. (Verdict: three stars out of five)

David Jenkins, Time Out: Photographed in slow, deadpan takes and utilising the most torrid colour scheme imaginable, Rumba delivers laughs that are hearty if infrequent, but its characters are too limited in scope for it to attain any real human depth. Yet there are tiny fragments of doe-eyed pathos that manage to rise above the screwball set-pieces, and they are rather touching. (Verdict: three stars out of five) ·