JFilm, TRFF and PLGF present Let My People Go!

JFilm, Three Rivers Film Festival, and
Pittsburgh Lesbian & Gay Film Society
present

 

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)
 
Two Shows:
Sunday, November 4, 2 p.m.
Tuesday, November 6, 9 p.m.

Regent Square Theater
Tickets: $10


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Mary Lou

Mary Lou

Wednesday, October 17th at 7pm
Harris Theater

150 Minutes (with additional 15 minute intermission)
Director: Eytan Fox

First aired as a four-part series on Israeli television, this 2009 film has often been compared favorably to the hit American TV show "Glee". The engaging story centers on a young gay man named Meir, who is searching for his mother who disappeared on his tenth birthday. To deal with the traumatic loss, he lies to everyone (including himself) that she has taken the stage name Mary Lou and is the back-up singer to real-life Israeli pop star Svika Pick. As an adult, he decides to finally reunite with his mom and sets off for Tel Aviv where his life takes some very surprising turns.

The film is screened in Hebrew with English subtitles.

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