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Let My People Go!

  • 2011
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 36m
IMDb RATING
5.9/10
723
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Let My People Go! (2011)
At Passover, Reuben, a French-Jewish man living in Finland with his Nordic boyfriend, finds himself back in Paris with his zany family after a lovers' quarrel.
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At Passover, Reuben, a French-Jewish man living in Finland with his Nordic boyfriend, finds himself back in Paris with his zany family after a lovers' quarrel.At Passover, Reuben, a French-Jewish man living in Finland with his Nordic boyfriend, finds himself back in Paris with his zany family after a lovers' quarrel.At Passover, Reuben, a French-Jewish man living in Finland with his Nordic boyfriend, finds himself back in Paris with his zany family after a lovers' quarrel.

  • Director
    • Mikael Buch
  • Writers
    • Mikael Buch
    • Christophe Honoré
  • Stars
    • Nicolas Maury
    • Carmen Maura
    • Jean-François Stévenin
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.9/10
    723
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Mikael Buch
    • Writers
      • Mikael Buch
      • Christophe Honoré
    • Stars
      • Nicolas Maury
      • Carmen Maura
      • Jean-François Stévenin
    • 2User reviews
    • 20Critic reviews
    • 37Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 2 wins & 1 nomination total

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    Nicolas Maury
    Nicolas Maury
    • Ruben
    Carmen Maura
    Carmen Maura
    • Rachel
    Jean-François Stévenin
    Jean-François Stévenin
    • Nathan
    Amira Casar
    Amira Casar
    • Irène
    Clément Sibony
    Clément Sibony
    • Samuel
    Jarkko Niemi
    Jarkko Niemi
    • Teemu Heikkinen
    Jean-Luc Bideau
    Jean-Luc Bideau
    • Maurice Goldberg
    Charlie Dupont
    • Hervé
    Kari Väänänen
    Kari Väänänen
    • Mr. Tiilikainen
    Aurore Clément
    Aurore Clément
    • Françoise
    Didier Flamand
    Didier Flamand
    • André
    Jean-Christophe Bouvet
    Jean-Christophe Bouvet
    • Commissaire
    Christelle Cornil
    Christelle Cornil
    • Léa
    Outi Mäenpää
    Outi Mäenpää
    • Helka
    Olavi Uusivirta
    • Fredrik
    Michaël Abiteboul
    Michaël Abiteboul
    • Ézechiel
    Olivier Claverie
    • Mr. Schwartz
    Jonathan Sadoun
    • Gabriel
    • Director
      • Mikael Buch
    • Writers
      • Mikael Buch
      • Christophe Honoré
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    10skriptaparis

    Light feel good comedy

    I have just discovered this movie at random and I don't regret it. I am impressed by the Finnish spoken by French actor Nicolas Maury who I know from the 10 % series ever since. Just refreshing and light and one can always appreciate the presence of Carmen Maura...
    jm10701

    Thoroughly delightful

    Let My People Go! is the most delightful movie I've seen in ages. Nicolas Maury is so utterly adorable, so sweetly, innocently, devastatingly sexy, so fascinating to watch every second he's on screen, that I wish he'd already starred in dozens of movies so I could watch them all. Since he hasn't, I'll have to sift through the few in which he has appeared in smaller roles.

    His seemingly unselfconscious charm makes this whole movie a great joy to watch, and I can't imagine it without him at its heart - but everybody else in it and behind it is so good that I'd give it a try anyway.

    Maury plays Reuben Steiner (spelled Ruben in the credits), a gay French Jew living in Finland with Teemu, his Finnish husband. His scheme to start a sauna business has failed and he's working as a mailman.

    A man on his mail route gives him an envelope containing almost 200,000 euro and then appears to drop dead. Teemu gets angry at Ruben for taking the money and kicks him out, so he returns to spend Passover with his highly eccentric but very loving family in Paris.

    It's a farce, much like a very modern version of a 30s screwball comedy, but all the main characters are so lovable and real that the totally unreal stuff that happens doesn't matter.

    There are no bad performances (his mother is played by Almodóvar's longtime muse Carmen Maura), no villains in the story except a pig-headed in-law and a couple of snarky cops, but they're negligible. A scene near the end in which the rottweiler-like police chief reads Ruben's love letter (in English) to Teemu over the phone is priceless.

    A brilliant screenplay (co-written with director Mikael Buch by the divine Christophe Honoré), mostly in French and Finnish with fairly good English subtitles; and an interesting score with songs by Devendra Banhart, Noah and the Whale and others.

    I rented the movie, but I loved it so much that I've ordered a copy to watch many times over. I can't recommend it highly enough.

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    Storyline

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    • Connections
      Features The Ten Commandments (1956)
    • Soundtracks
      Baby
      Written and performed by Devendra Banhart

      © Chrysalis Music Ltd

      Avec l'aimable autorisation de Chrysalis Music France

      (p) 2009 Warner Bros. Records Inc.

      With Kind Permission of Warner Music France, A Warner Music Group Company

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    • Release date
      • January 11, 2013 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • France
    • Official site
      • UK Official Site
    • Languages
      • French
      • Finnish
      • English
      • Hebrew
    • Also known as
      • Позвольте моим людям идти
    • Filming locations
      • Helsinki, Finland
    • Production companies
      • Les Films Pelléas
      • France 2 Cinéma
      • Jouror Productions
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $18,529
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $2,236
      • Jan 13, 2013
    • Gross worldwide
      • $18,529
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 36 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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