The promise of a French social satire that delves into Gallic xenophobia and a global refugee crisis does not, unfortunately, seem like something that might gather wide audience interest. However, if ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the culture-clash comedy “Meet the Barbarians,” actor-director Julie Delpy lays bare a number of Western hypocrisies. The film ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. And yet her latest work, the refugee satire Meet the Barbarians (Les Barbares), is probably her most bluntly French film to date, ...
Until its full plot unfolds, viewers are likely to assume “Meet the Barbarians” is a sweetly nostalgic comedy. And in some ways, they’d be right. Director Julie Delpy structures her new film as a ...
Read up on the latest Meet the Barbarians News, Reviews and Features from the team at Collider. A small town in Brittany braces to host a Ukrainian refugee family, but a Syrian family arrives instead.
The French satire takes aim at the differences between Ukrainian and Syrian refugees in Western eyes. The bits of “Meet the Barbarians” shot by TV cameras are differentiated from the rest of the movie ...
The latest feature from the director of '2 Days in Paris' reveals what happens when a tiny French town welcomes a Syrian family into its midst. By Jordan Mintzer With eight movies in just over two ...
In the culture-clash comedy “Meet the Barbarians,” actor-director Julie Delpy lays bare a number of Western hypocrisies. The film follows several townspeople in the struggling French commune of ...