Infamousta brilliant actors, brilliant editing

Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Stephanie There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

mhano God returns to earth to make a film. It sounds like a preposterous idea and based on this subject one might assume the film quirky, but I found it far too touching to label it so. There's something in humor and warm-heartedness of this film that holds it all together. The film takes the idea from an amusing thought, to a beautiful uplifting experience.I laughed, I cried, I was truly touched by this beautiful film.I have been searching on and off for this film for eight years. I finally found a DVD on amazon.fr but was sadly disappointed to discover that it had no English subtitles.God appears as many forms in this film. This itself is a brilliant metaphor on several levels. Many films try to portray god with in different ways (deep voices coming from the sky etc.) but the way he is portrayed in "Que la lumière soit" is a disarming stroke of brilliance. Hélène de Fougerolles is amazing as Jeanne, she plays the role with such innocence... she is positively luminescent in this film. Poor, poor René, God's trusty assistant angel, what a gorgeous character!Thank you to all involved for such a magical uplifting film.I just managed to see this film again after looking for all these years, I'm sure there are many others who loved this film as I do. I wish someone would distribute this in Australia!

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).

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.