"God is Great and I'm Not" (2001)
This film starring Audrey Tautou and Edouar Baer furthur proves what I have always suspected to be true. Audrey Tautou is the only thing that doesn't suck about France.
Michele (Tautou) is on a quest to find spirituality. She tries Catholicism and Buddhism and all the other "isms" when, behold, the falls in love...with a Jew. She decides that she is Jewish and becomes a better Jew than her lover or even his Israeli parents.
This movie is wonderfully funny and heart-warming and everything you want in a cold weather movie. Audrey Tautou is perfect as usual in her subtlety and delivery (though it's in French, with a little Hebrew and English sprinkled in). Edouard Baer is also adept in his performance as Francious, her lover. And he reminds me of somebody but I can't place who...
If you're not too illiterate or too American to enjoy French film, I recommend this one highly.
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