Let My People Go! (2011 film)
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| Directed by | Mikael Buch |
| Produced by | Philippe Martin Geraldine Michelot |
| Edited by | Simon Jacquet |
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| Distributed by | Les Films du Losange and Zeitgeist Films |
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| Country | France |
| Language | French |
Let My People Go! is a 2011 film directed by Mikael Buch. It premiered at the 2011 Montreal World Film Festival and was released in December 2011 in France.[1] It was released in the United States in 2013 by Zeitgeist Films and grossed $18,529 domestically.
Synopsis
Ruben is a French-Jewish gay mailman is living in fairytale Finland (where he got his MA in "Comparative Sauna Cultures") with his gorgeous Nordic boyfriend. Just before Passover, a series of mishaps and a lovers' quarrel exile the heartbroken Reuben back to Paris and his zany family—including 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, Let My People Go! both celebrates and upends Jewish and gay stereotypes.[2]
Main cast
- Nicolas Maury as Ruben
- Carmen Maura as Rachel
- Jean-François Stévenin as Nathan
- Amira Casar as Irène
- Clément Sibony as Samuel
- Jarkko Niemi as Teemu
- Jean-Luc Bideau as Maurice
- Didier Flamand as André
- Kari Väänänen as Monsieur Tilikainen
- Olavi Uusivirta as Fredrik
- Aurore Clément as Françoise
- Michaël Abiteboul as Ézechiel
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Reception
"A fairy-tale romance whose title acknowledges both a saturation in and longing to be free of Jewish cultural baggage, Mikael Buch's Let My People Go!cross-breeds cultures that are rarely paired onscreen. International box-office prospects are fair in urban arthouses, where the presence of Almodóvar collaborator Carmen Maura may tip moviegoers off to the pop-inflected, comic semi-scandals in store." -John DeFore, The Hollywood Reporter[5]
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