Rumba Therapy

Rumba Therapy (Rumba la vie, 2022) is a French comedy you can watch online on iFILM, written and directed by its leading man, Franck Dubosc. Tony drives a school bus and, pushing fifty, has nobody left.

A heart attack stops him cold. Convinced his time is short, he goes looking for the daughter he walked out on twenty years ago, when she was still a baby. She teaches dance in Paris — so this man who despises the dance floor signs up for her class under a fake name, hoping to know her little by little.

Dubosc carries the film both behind and in front of the camera, with Louna Espinosa as the daughter and Jean-Pierre Darroussin along for the ride. The laughs come from a clumsy coward learning to say sorry through the rumba rather than from one-liners. A warm pick for fans of French feel-good cinema. Stream Rumba Therapy (2022) online on iFILM.