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Julie Delpy Talks Making a Comedy About the Immigration Crisis With Toronto Title ‘Meet the Barbarians’: ‘How Do I Reach People That Are Not Easily Reached?’
Julie Delpy discusses her latest film "Meet the barbarians," a comedy exploring the journey of a Syrian family who find refuge in a French village.
The movie, which marks Delpy’s feature comeback after helming the Netflix series “On the Verge,” is set in Paimpont, a small town in France’s Brittany region that is preparing to welcome Ukrainian refugees. Delpy penned, directed and stars in the film as Joelle, a progressive schoolteacher who enlists the help of her devoted friend (Sandrine Kiberlain) to make the Syrian family feel at home despite the bigotry of some neighbors, such as plumber Hervé (Laurent Lafitte). Although it’s a comedy, “Meet the Barbarians” was based on “thorough research on how Syrian refugees ended up in France and how their journey was,” says Delpy, who penned the script with Matthieu Rumani (“Family Business”) and Nicolas Slomka (“Fiasco”), with the collaboration of Léa Doménach (“Bernadette”).
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