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Stay with Us

Original title: Reste un peu
  • 2022
  • 1h 30m
IMDb RATING
5.9/10
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Gad Elmaleh, David Elmaleh, and Régine Elmaleh in Stay with Us (2022)
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Gad, living in the US, returns to France hiding his conversion to Catholicism from family. When parents find out, they try to revert him to Judaism. Gad convinces them his Catholic faith doe... Read allGad, living in the US, returns to France hiding his conversion to Catholicism from family. When parents find out, they try to revert him to Judaism. Gad convinces them his Catholic faith doesn't negate his identity or love for them.Gad, living in the US, returns to France hiding his conversion to Catholicism from family. When parents find out, they try to revert him to Judaism. Gad convinces them his Catholic faith doesn't negate his identity or love for them.

  • Director
    • Gad Elmaleh
  • Writers
    • Gad Elmaleh
    • Benjamin Charbit
    • Eytan Saada
  • Stars
    • Gad Elmaleh
    • Régine Elmaleh
    • David Elmaleh
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.9/10
    485
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Gad Elmaleh
    • Writers
      • Gad Elmaleh
      • Benjamin Charbit
      • Eytan Saada
    • Stars
      • Gad Elmaleh
      • Régine Elmaleh
      • David Elmaleh
    • 2User reviews
    • 9Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Gad Elmaleh
    Gad Elmaleh
    • Gad
    Régine Elmaleh
    Régine Elmaleh
    • Régine
    David Elmaleh
    David Elmaleh
    • David
    Judith Elmaleh
    • Judith
    Pierre-Henry Salfati
    • Le rabbin
    Delphine Horvilleur
    • La rabbine
    Catherine Thiercelin
    • Soeur Catherine
    Nicolas Port
    • Père Barthélémy
    William Azoulay
    • William
    Mehdi Djaadi
    • Mehdi
    Guy Moign
    • Raymond
    Olivia Jubin
    • Agnès
    Rony Kramer
    Rony Kramer
    • Cousin Éric
    Roschdy Zem
    Roschdy Zem
    • Roschdy
    Redouane Bougheraba
    Redouane Bougheraba
    • Ami restaurant
    Tarik Raifak
    • Ami restaurant
    Amélie Melkonian
    • Anna
    Frédéric Hazan
    • Frère supérieur
    • Director
      • Gad Elmaleh
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      • Gad Elmaleh
      • Benjamin Charbit
      • Eytan Saada
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    8Nozz

    Very pleasant if it doesn't push your buttons

    In this movie, which is a bit autobiographical, Gad Elmaleh casts his actual parents as his parents and the results are as fine as could be expected from any professional actors. (If I understand correctly, his father actually is a professional performer but his mother isn't.)

    It's a very pleasant movie if you're willing to put aside any sensitivity you may feel to the topic of religious conversion. And to the idea that, deep down, the Abrahamic religions are more alike than different. And to the heavy emphasis on the Virgin Mary in the attitude of some Catholics. They're all embraced, and all made light of, in good humor although outside the theater the same issues may rub some of us the wrong way.
    7dromasca

    the temptation of Gad

    I've been looking forward to watching 'Reste un peu', Gad Elmaleh's semi-documentary and semi-autobiographical film ever since I saw some interviews and debates on the francophone televisions on the occasion of its release on screens in France a few months ago. The French Film Festival has now given me the opportunity to see the film and my expectations have been largely confirmed. Gad Elmaleh tackles the conversion of a Jewish character to Christianity, one of the most delicate themes of cinema with Jewish subjects, a theme that carries a painful historical charge and which, if not approached with a deep understanding of the subject, with delicacy and humor can easily fall into melodrama, stereotypes and other forms of bad cinema. The subject is present in films like 'Fiddler on the Roof' by Norman Jewison or in some of Woody Allen's New York period films. In fact, it doesn't take much imagination to picture Gad Elmaleh, the film's hero, as a Woody some 40 years later, living out his dilemmas in a family of Sephardic rather then Ashkenazi Jews, in Paris' Marais instead of Manhattan.

    Actor/Stand-up-ist Gad Elmaleh stars as actor/stand-up-ist Gad Elmaleh who returns to Paris to visit his parents after several years of trying his luck in America. The roles of the parents are played by Gad Elmaleh's parents (the father is a professional actor, the mother is not). The joy of the reunion and family harmony are disturbed by the mother's discovery, in her son's luggage, of a statuette of the Holy Virgin. The parents' worst fears are confirmed: their son is quite advanced on the path of conversion to Catholicism. It is not a typical conversion (are there typical conversions?) but on a Path strewn with many hesitations and doubts that seems to have been triggered from childhood by the ban on entering churches in the cosmopolitan and multi-ethnic Casablanca and by the fascination for Saint Mary. We will follow the winding spiritual path of the hero in the last weeks before the big event, a path sprinkled with discussions with relatives, friends, priests, monks and a nun, a rabbi and a rabbi woman. Almost all of them play the roles of their own characters, including the liberal rabbi Delphine Horvilleur, an impressing and charming figure in French Judaism. Gad's parents are formidable. The only role "played" is that of the Orthodox rabbi, entrusted to a documentary director friend. The impression is of authenticity and freshness.

    How should we watch 'Reste un peu'? From a secular and relaxed perspective, it can be considered a pseudo-documentary with an autobiographical note and with a lot of irony mixed with tenderness towards the two beliefs between which the character oscillates. Criticisms of religious establishments are not systemic but anecdotal. However, those involved in one or another of the religions will find - if they look for - reasons to be upset. To create a film with such a theme without offending anyone is 'Mission impossible'. Like some of the Christian saints, Gad goes through a period of temptation, and how he will endure (or not) is interpreted very differently by the two faiths. Intentions are the best, and the hero of Gad Elmaleh's film faces temptation using detachment and humor as his main weapons. Filmgoers must resist the temptation to take the subject matter more seriously and humorlessly than the author did.

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    • Release date
      • November 16, 2022 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • France
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    • Language
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Fica Connosco
    • Filming locations
      • Morocco
    • Production companies
      • Vito Films
      • KS2 Cinéma
      • Canal+
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $23,250
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $1,682
      • May 12, 2024
    • Gross worldwide
      • $3,525,060
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