Let My People Go!

Let My People Go!
Country: France
Director: Mikael Buch
This hilarious fusion of gay romantic comedy, Jewish family drama, and French bedroom farce follows the travails and daydreams of the lovelorn Reuben. He's a French-Jewish gay mailman living in fairytale Finland (where he got his MA in “Comparative Sauna Cultures”) with his gorgeous Nordic boyfriend. But just before Passover, a series of mishaps and quarrels exile the heartbroken Reuben back to Paris and his zany family. His ditzy mom is played by Carmen Maura (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown). Truffaut regular Jean-François Stévenin plays his lothario father. Managing to celebrate and upend Jewish and gay stereotypes, it's a deeply heartwarming, fabulously kitschy and hysterically funny movie. (2012; 86 min) Presented in collaboration with JFilm, the Pittsburgh Jewish Film Forum; and Reel Q Pittsburgh LGBT Film Festival.