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.
Ruben (Nicolas Maury) is a happy mailman from Paris living in Finland whose boyfriend doubts him when he claims a homeowner gave him a huge package of money (199,980 euros) before collapsing. So Ruben storms off and returns to his family back home shortly before Passover. The money story is largely abandoned in favor of a visit with each of Ruben’s wacky, feuding family members.
The movie’s labored attempt at creating comedy mostly means lots of scenes with Ruben cringing as relatives shout. Plus, there are woefully contrived sex-farce situations such as when Ruben picks up a much older man in a club and can’t get rid of him the next morning. Filler material (such as a lame fantasy sequence about a spray that turns you into a Jew) will fool no one about its purpose, which is to push the movie near the 90-minute mark.