Ann Bacon (Theatergal123) It was at a screening some 7 years ago in Fort Lauderdale, FL... when I quite surprisingly found myself stuck to my seat with tears streaming down my face... Why?... I had just viewed "Let There Be Light", a delightful film about God's attempt to have his recently finished script filmed here on earth... This film has remained in my memory... and I remain...still enchanted... after all these years!! The story of "Let There Be Light" unveils with a fabulous mix of humor, tenderness and zeal.... I was quite unexpectedly and quite simply "swept away"... and since then have been asking myself why this gem has not become a classic... The entire package which is "Let There Be Light" is as captivating and its cast of characters as entertaining and enthralling as those in the film, "King of Hearts",... perhaps one of the quintessential cult classics here in the US.... I have searched the web and video stores in vain for a copy with English subtitles... as I would love to share this gem with others... As characters proclaimed in the film, "I have a script. I need a director"... As a viewer who believes that there is a potential audience, who would relish this film's release on DVD with English subtitles, I assert... "There is a film! We need a distributor!"

jshoaf This film was just good fun, not-quite-two hours of entertaining suspension of disbelief--literally, since if one does not believe in God, or believes anything in particular about him, one has to forget that. Which is easy, because every little idea and character is worked out just enough to keep the viewer engaged: yes, the Hebrew typewriter (on which God is typing his screenplay--he is woefully underendowed with electronics and evidently doesn't even have cable, though there is a satellite in his neighborhood) goes to the right when God hits "return"; yes, God is a baby-ditchdigger-pigeon-garbage man; yes, some kind of wings will appear in the proximity of the angel René until he gets his "real" ones. The Burning Bush becomes a hot-dog roast, a woman who reads the newspaper tells God off for allowing the news to happen, the devil has his own rewrite department. There is some kind of dumb or clever joke, visual or verbal or both, every minute. Maybe every thirty seconds.The movie God makes provokes the one long sequence with relatively few jokes: people watching a movie. It reminded me quite a bit--and was surely meant to--of the movie scene in Sullivan's Travels, with men at the lowest ebb of dignity laughing at Mickey Mouse. But this audience is not a chain gang; it is all the people of Paris, cushioned by a social safety net (at one point René says that if he gets fired as an angel he'll have to apply for unemployment; hospitals are evidently good places to die or go crazy; you need a permit to make a movie; the police always seem to be in place whether needed or not; the more dangerous bits of the Eiffel Tower are roped off). Perhaps if there is a message it is that a society is better at providing safety nets than God, but that he survives because our imaginations need him (or, in the movie, vice versa).

fogg98 Ah, if only all films came from France. If only all women were as beautiful as Hélène de Fougerolles. What a wonderful world this would be, non? I would be totally lost without French cinema. Their drama's are raw, intelligent and rip emotions from inside, throw them in your face and say "There!! - SEE! LIVE!! FEEL!!!" Thrillers are innovative, experimental and imaginative and their comedies are witty and chaotic, and.....well, just bloody good fun! Que la lumière soit is a sublime comedy, textured with arresting characters and some wonderfully farcical scenes, inter-laced with truly poignant moments. See this film. It is well cast, well paced and should have you roaring with laughter. Amen.

jf34 God has written a script "Let there be light !" and is searching for a good and adequate film-maker. In order to reach this aim, He will temporarily live in the body of many human-being and animals, helped by his favorite and irresistible angel !A deep and original subject, with subtle theological considerations, and treated with a lot of humor, simplicity and generosity.