Rumba
A mostly silent comedy, Rumba is full of bright gaudy colours and surprisingly edgey humour, and while some bits of the comedy fall rather flat and the final third is a bit lacking in a number of ways, this is unusual and innovative and not really the kind of film you'd expect to see.

Two teachers, who have rather unusual teaching styles, like nothing more than dancing, and then enter competitions and so forth. After an unfortunate accident involving a guy failing to commit suicide, one ends up with memory loss and the other loses a leg. Cue many scenes which flirt with being offensive but are instead just ridiculous - notably, a scene with literally minutes of throwing around crutches and paperwork in an attempt to balance with just one leg. Still, even while flirting with convention, this is a gentle, slow humour that nevertheless can be appreciated and enjoyed, though this does make the bits that don't work too well drag on a little too long. I suppose the closest thing in recent times would be Mr Bean, though Mr Bean tends to edge over the crass line rather more regularly (not to its benefit, in my book).

Both Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon are excellent at utilising this rather old and out-of-fashion style of physical comedy. Philippe Martz is excellent support too, as the continually unsuccessful suicidal guy.

There's quite a lot of fun to be had here, and it is pleasant to see a different style of film that points back to much earlier times, but retains a decent amount of contemporary edge nevertheless. The visual gags are very strong. A shame, given the short running time, that it starts to drag towards the end, because for the first 50 minutes or so this is quite a novel delight. 6.5 out of 10.