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Plot Summary
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 Ruben, 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 Ruben back to Paris and his zany family—including Almodóvar goddess Carmen Maura as his ditzy mom and Truffaut regular Jean-François Stévenin as his father. Scripted by director Mikael Buch and renowned art house auteur Christophe Honoré, Let My People Go! both celebrates and upends Jewish and gay stereotypes with wit, gusto and style to spare. The result is deeply heartwarming, fabulously kitschy and hysterically funny.
Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
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29%- Reviews Counted: 14
- Fresh: 4
- Rotten: 10
- Average Rating: 4.7/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Rotten: 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.
Rotten: Let My People Go! offers an unholy alliance of camp and farce that both celebrates and mocks gay and Jewish stereotypes.
Rotten: 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.
Rotten: There are lots of cutesy stylistic touches (iris shots, deadpan framing), but few insights into how the protagonist's various identities (queer, Jewish, French) clash and come together.
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- $12.99
- Genre: Comedy
- Released: 2013
- © 2011 LFP – Les Films Pelléas, France 2 Cinema, Jouror Productions