Filming on Les barbares, the new film by Julie Delpy, began on 19 June and is currently under way in Brittany, where it will end on 28 July. This will be the actress’ seventh feature as a director, after Two Days in Paris [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Christophe Mazodier
intervista: Julie Delpy
scheda film] (Berlinale Panorama 2007), The Countess [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Anna Maria Mühe
scheda film] (Berlinale Panorama 2009), Skylab [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] (San Sebastián Special Jury Prize in 2011), 2 Days in New York [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] (Sundance 2012), Lolo [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Julie Delpy, Dany Boon
scheda film] (Giornate degli Autori 2015) and My Zoe [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Julie Delpy
scheda film] (in Toronto’s Platform competition in 2019).

In the cast are the director herself (nominated for the 2014 Golden Globe for Best Actress), Sandrine Kiberlain (nominated six times for the Best Actress César award, winning in 2014 for 9 Month Stretch [+leggi anche:
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scheda film], well-received recently in Diary of a Fleeting Affair [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Emmanuel Mouret
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scheda film] and See You Up There [+leggi anche:
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scheda film], appreciated in Everybody Loves Jeanne [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] and For My Country [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Rachid Hami
scheda film], on television in September in the limited series Tapie), India Hair (nominated for the 2013 and 2021 César awards for Most Promising Actress, noticed this year in Cannes in Jeanne du Barry [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] and All To Play For [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Delphine Deloget
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intervista: Alain Guiraudie
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Also in the film are Ziad Bakri (The Translator [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Rana Kazkaz e Anas Khalaf
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scheda film]), Fares Helou (The Translator) and Albert Delpy (who often appears in his daughter’s films and was also appreciated in Deerskin [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Quentin Dupieux
scheda film]).

Written by Julie Delpy (nominated for the Best Screenplay Oscar in 2005 and 2015 for Before Sunset and Before Midnight [+leggi anche:
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scheda film], and for the Best Screenplay César award in 2008 for Two Days in Paris), Matthieu Rumani and Nicolas Slomka in collaboration with Elsa Domenach, the script is set at the heart of a small village in Brittany, whose municipality has decided to welcome a family of Ukrainian refugees. Except that the refugees who arrive aren’t Ukrainian, but Syrian… 

Produced by Michaël Gentile for The Film, Les barbares has been pre-bought by Canal+ and Disney+. The feature film is also supported by the La Banque Postale Image, Cinécap, Cineventure, Indéfilms, Cofimage and Cofinova Soficas. Filming is taking place entirely in Brittany, with George Lechaptois as director of photography. Distribution in French cinemas will be handled by Le Pacte and international sales by Charades.

For the record, The Film currently has After the Fire [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Mehdi Fikri and Madame de Sévigné by Isabelle Brocard (starring Karin Viard and released in France on 24 January 2024) in post-production, while the comedy Les Hennedricks by Laurence Arné (who co-stars alongside Dany Boon) is currently completing filming.