Let My People Go!

Released Jan 11, 2013

1h 25m

Comedy

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38%

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16 Reviews

37%

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100+ Ratings

After breaking up with his Finnish lover, a French Jew (Nicolas Maury) returns home to Paris and the arms of his dysfunctional family right before Passover.

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Loren King

Boston Globe

Oy vey doesn't begin to address the result.

Rated: 2/4

Feb 28, 2013

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Sheri Linden

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.

Rated: 2/5

Jan 17, 2013

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Kyle Smith

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.

Rated: 1/4

Jan 11, 2013

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Jack Fleischer

Battleship Pretension

When it comes down to it, this movie is a lot like a cat video. It's cute, and I stay involved in order to have the satisfaction of resolution. Other than that, there isn't a plot or character I feel I can relate to.

Mar 22, 2021

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Mattie Lucas

From the Front Row

It's a bit too broad at times, and the outrageousness of the stereotypes are often so over the top as to be silly rather than truly funny, but there's a certain charm about it that is hard to resist.

Rated: 2.5/4

Aug 6, 2019

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Peter Keough

Boston Phoenix

Though the film alludes repeatedly to the story of Exodus, it remains bound to hysterical stereotypes and hyperbolic plotting.

Rated: 1.5/4

Feb 28, 2013

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StephenPaul C

LOL, the funniest 01 hour: and 25 minutes ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

07/15/23

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Stephen C

LOL, the funniest 01 hour: and 25 minutes (1 5/12 hours) ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

08/25/22

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Audience Member

Quirky and fun... Yet serious... Beautiful style... Reminded me of Almodovar and Jeunet...

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

02/04/23

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Audience Member

Campy, but too over the top.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

02/04/23

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Audience Member

Utter nonsense, but I had a good laugh.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/20/23

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Audience Member

This movie is really very funny. It needs to get more attention.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/20/23

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Mikael Buch

Director

Nicolas Maury

Ruben

Carmen Maura

Rachel

Jean-François Stévenin

Nathan

Amira Casar

Irène

Clément Sibony

Samuel

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Synopsis

After breaking up with his Finnish lover, a French Jew (Nicolas Maury) returns home to Paris and the arms of his dysfunctional family right before Passover.

Director: Mikael Buch
Screenwriter: Mikael Buch, Christophe Honoré, Mikael Buch, Christophe Honoré
Distributor: Zeitgeist
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: French (Canada)
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 11, 2013, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 11, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $16.9K
Runtime: 1h 25m

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