Country: France
Year: 2024
Duration: 101'
All is well in Paimpont, Brittany, where harmony reigns among the locals. There’s Joëlle, the schoolteacher who’s inclined to lecture people; Anne, who owns a convenience store and likes a good aperitif; Hervé, a plumber from Alsace who’s even more Breton than the locals; and Johnny, the local ranger and Johnny Hallyday fan. In a show of solidarity, the town enthusiastically votes to host some Ukrainian refugees. But the refugees, it turns out, aren’t so Ukrainian after all. They’re Syrian! And some of the folks in this charming little town aren’t very pleased with having them for neighbors. So, when all is said and done, who are the barbarians?
Biography
film director
Julie Delpy
(Paris, France, 1969) is an actress, director, screenwriter, and also a singer. With Richard Linklater and Ethan Hawke, with whom she began collaborating at the time of the famous Before Sunrise (1993), she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Before Sunset (2004) and Before Midnight (2013), in which she also starred. In her acting career she boasts numerous titles, including Killing Zoe (1993) by Roger Avary, Trois couleurs : Blanc (1994) by Krzysztof Kieślowski and Broken Flowers (2005) by Jim Jarmusch. In 2002 he made his feature directorial debut with Looking for Jimmy, followed by 2 jours à Paris (2005) and five other feature films (including Lolo, presented in 2015 at the Venice Film Festival). In 2003 she released a record entitled Julie Delpy.
FILMOGRAFIA
Blah Blah Blah (cm, 1995), Looking for Jimmy (2002), J'ai peur, j'ai mal, je meurs (cm, 2004), 2 Days in Paris (2 giorni a Parigi, 2007), The Countess (La contessa, 2009), Le Skylab (2011), 2 Days in New York (2 giorni a New York, 2012), Lolo (Lolo - Giù le mani da mia madre, 2015), My Zoe (2019), Les Barbares (2024).
Declaration
film director
“The film is intended primarily as entertainment, but it also has a subtext. It isn’t naive, though: all the images in the film, that are shown before each of the five acts, are related to religious and colonial wars and the notion of white supremacy. Again, that comes from my upbringing. Believing that one race, religion, or person is inferior to another is simply beyond the pale. In this film, I used imagery and music to illustrate this subject: each act is paired with important moments from classical music, specifically Beethoven and Mozart.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Julie Delpy. SCREENPLAY: Julie Delpy, Matthieu Rumani, Nicolas Slomka, with the collaboration of Léa Doménach. CINEMATOGRAPHY: George Lechaptois. EDITING: Camille Delprat. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Quentin Millot. COSTUMES: Amandine Cros. MUSIC: Philippe Jakko. SOUND: Julien Sicart, Victor Praud, Tristan Pontecaille. CAST: Julie Delpy, Sandrine Kiberlain, Laurent Lafitte, Ziad Bakri Jean-Charles Clichet, India Hair, Dalia Naous, Mathieu Demy, Marc Fraize, Rita Hayek, Fares Helou. PRODUCTION: Michael Gentile for The Film.
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