Export the Import: Sandrine Kiberlain & Laurent Lafitte Join Julie Delpy’s “Les barbares”

Sandrine Kiberlain and Laurent Lafitte will re-team once again this time as the faces of surprise and dismay representing a small (minded) folk of a Brittany village in Julie Delpy‘s Les barbares. Production on the actress-filmmaker’s eighth feature will take place this June-July. Michael Gentile is producing. In a recent interview with Variety, the filmmaker called the refugee comedy both “funny and dark.”

The municipality of a small Breton village has decided to welcome a family of Ukrainian refugees. To their surprise, the receive Fayad family – coming from Syria. They thwart all the clichés that the French expected: they are friendly, refined, educated… So much so that, in this small, humming village, it is no longer clear which side the barbarians are on…