12/07/2023 - The cast of this The Film production, sold by Charades, includes Sandrine Kiberlain, Laurent Lafitte, India Hair, Jean-Charles Clichet, Ziad Bakri and the director herself

Director Julie Delpy (© Jojo Whilden/Magnolia Pictures)

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 [+see also:
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interview: Christophe Mazodier
interview: Julie Delpy
film profile] (Berlinale Panorama 2007), The Countess [+see also:
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interview: Anna Maria Mühe
film profile] (Berlinale Panorama 2009), Skylab [+see also:
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film profile] (San Sebastián Special Jury Prize in 2011), 2 Days in New York [+see also:
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film profile] (Sundance 2012), Lolo [+see also:
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interview: Julie Delpy, Dany Boon
film profile] (Giornate degli Autori 2015) and My Zoe [+see also:
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interview: Julie Delpy
film profile] (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 [+see also:
trailer
film profile], well-received recently in Diary of a Fleeting Affair [+see also:
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interview: Emmanuel Mouret
film profile]), Laurent Lafitte (nominated for the 2017 and 2019 César awards for Best Supporting Actor for Elle [+see also:
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film profile] and See You Up There [+see also:
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film profile], appreciated in Everybody Loves Jeanne [+see also:
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film profile] and For My Country [+see also:
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interview: Rachid Hami
film profile], 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 [+see also:
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film profile] and All To Play For [+see also:
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interview: Delphine Deloget
film profile]) and Jean-Charles Clichet (Nobody's Hero [+see also:
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interview: Alain Guiraudie
film profile]).

Also in the film are Ziad Bakri (The Translator [+see also:
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interview: Rana Kazkaz and Anas Khalaf
film profile]), Mathieu Demy (All To Play For), Marc Fraize (My Donkey, My Lover & I [+see also:
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film profile]), Brigitte Rouän (nominated for the Best Actress European Film Award in 1997, seen recently in Into the World [+see also:
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film profile]), Fares Helou (The Translator) and Albert Delpy (who often appears in his daughter’s films and was also appreciated in Deerskin [+see also:
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interview: Quentin Dupieux
film profile]).

Written by Julie Delpy (nominated for the Best Screenplay Oscar in 2005 and 2015 for Before Sunset and Before Midnight [+see also:
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film profile], 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 [+see also:
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film profile] 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.

(Translated from French)