Synopsis
Everyone knows that Ruben is Jewish, gay, half-French, half-Finnish, an ungrateful son and disappointing lover, a thief who can’t help himself, and possibly a murderer to boot. The only person who doesn't know who Ruben is is Ruben himself. When he comes to a major turning point in his life, Ruben cannot make up his mind which way to go. Should he follow his people or his heart?
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Cast
- Nicolas MauryRuben
- Carmen MauraRachel
- Jean-François StéveninNathan
- Amira CasarIrène
- Clément SibonySamuel
- Jarkko NiemiTeemu Heikkinen
- Jean-Luc BideauMaurice Goldberg
- Aurore ClémentFrançoise
- Kari VäänänenMr. Tiilikainen
- Outi MäenpääHelka
Recommendations
- 60
Time Out
Ceaselessly upbeat and just short of zany, Let My People Go! will bring smiles of recognition to anyone who hasn't seen early Woody Allen in a while. - 50
Slant Magazine
Without a consistent stylistic playfulness to match the histrionic scenarios, the action often feels just plain silly. - 50
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. - 50
Boston Globe
You don’t have to be Jewish to love borscht belt humor, or gay to love camp, or French to love farce. But when all three are thrown into a blender with a dollop of generic family dysfunction, as is the case in Let My People Go!, oy vey doesn’t begin to address the result. - 40
Village Voice
Mikael Buch's debut feature is silly and sweet, but also paper thin and mostly unimaginative: a series of cartoonish vignettes during which a generically eccentric Jewish clan confronts movie-family problems (adultery, divorce, health scares, tense sibling relationships). - 40
The 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. - 40
Variety
Let My People Go! offers an unholy alliance of camp and farce that both celebrates and mocks gay and Jewish stereotypes. - 25
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.
