Let My People Go! (2012)
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29% of critics liked it
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21% of users liked it
(193 ratings)
A sweet and hilarious fusion of gay romantic comedy, Jewish family drama and French bedroom farce, Mikael Buch's Let My People Go! follows the travails and daydreams of the lovelorn Reuben (Nicolas Maury), a French-Jewish gay mailman living in fairytale Finland (where he got his MA in… More A sweet and hilarious fusion of gay romantic comedy, Jewish family drama and French bedroom farce, Mikael Buch's Let My People Go! follows the travails and daydreams of the lovelorn Reuben (Nicolas Maury), a French-Jewish gay mailman living in fairytale Finland (where he got his MA in "Comparative Sauna Cultures") with his gorgeous Nordic boyfriend. But just before Passover, a series of mishaps and a lovers' quarrel exile the heartbroken Reuben back to Paris and his zany family-including Almodovar goddess Carmen Maura as his ditzy mom, and Truffaut regular Jean-François Stévenin as his lothario father. Scripted by director Mikael Buch and renowned arthouse auteur Christophe Honoré (Love Songs), Let My People Go! both celebrates and upends Jewish and gay stereotypes with wit, gusto and style to spare. -- (C) Zeitgeist
- Directed By
- Mikael Buch
- Written By
- Christophe Honoré, Mikael Buch
- Genres
- Comedy
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Jan 11, 2013 Limited
- Studio
- Zeitgeist Films
Critic Reviews
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Loren King, Boston Globe
Oy vey doesn't begin to address the result.
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Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times
The road to the inevitable slapsticky Seder is paved with more sweetness than bite, a good deal of frantic foolishness and progressively thinner laughs, all wrapped in a message of acceptance and inclusiveness.
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Kyle Smith, New York Post
Among gay Jewish French postman movies, "Let My People Go!" may be a Hall of Fame entry, but alas, by any other standard this would-be sex comedy is a dismal failure.
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Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
Reuben is a whiny and uncoordinated prodigal son. His constant chafing at himself and the world is the film's biggest problem; by the midway point we're all wishing him back in Finland where he belongs.
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Ella Taylor, NPR
The result is late Woody Allen, when early might have done the trick.
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Cast
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Nicolas Maury
as Ruben
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Carmen Maura
as Rachel
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Jean-François Stévenin
as Nathan
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Amira Casar
as Irène
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Clement Sibony
as Samuel
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Jarkko Niemi
as Teemu
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Jean-Luc Bideau
as Maurice Goldberg
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Kari Väänänen
as Monsieur Tilikainen
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Outi Mäenpää
as Helka
