When visiting Paris, Julie Delpy returns to her youth. She lives above her father, Albert, in an 18-square-metre apartment at number 15my district with endless leaks. And every evening she finds him in a Vietnamese restaurant (sometimes Italian, Lebanese or Moroccan), where they exchange a few words about promoting the film, slightly disturbed by the director’s state of health. He sprained his ankle and tore his meniscus in Belle-Ile-en-Mer (Morbihan), an operation planned for his return to Los Angeles. “I’m going to be unable to move for two months, I’m going to gain ten kilos, it’s depressing…”resume. The revenge of the Breton gods?, we dare to ask.
In The BarbariansIn , a hilarious comedy of manners about racism, the inhabitants of Paimpont, a village located in the Brocéliande forest in Ille-et-Vilaine, prepare to welcome a family of Ukrainian refugees. But a few days before the scheduled date, news arrives that frustrates their gesture of kindness: they will be Syrian.
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“My aim was not to make fun of the village where I spent every summer as a child with my aunt. If there is a welcoming land, it is Brittany! But we have to face the facts. Who in their inner circle does not have at least one person who has welcomed Ukrainians? However, there has not been the same generosity towards Syrians, not even at the state level.points out. While we were exploring, the director of a school explained to us that his establishment had taken in four refugee children, two Ukrainian and two Syrian. He himself admitted to having given a whole presentation on the war in Ukraine, which had deeply hurt the Syrians, who were not entitled to the same treatment.
In Julie Delpy’s Paimpont, we find a whole range of different forms of racism. Between Joëlle, the caring and lecturing school teacher (Julie Delpy), and Hervé, the plumber (Laurent Lafitte, masterful) who takes on his hostility towards non-Bretons in general, there are racists who do not feel racist, racists who claim that “Saying ‘Arabs’ is not racist”HE “not racist” who still have preconceived ideas…
“The shopkeeper would not have cried stealing when Marwan [l’architecte syrien] It tastes like a nut, if the latter had been Ukrainianthe director assumes. This happened to my husband, a Greek man who looks exactly like a Middle Eastern man. It was in Belle-Ile, and the saleswoman lectured her: “Yes! In our country we don’t do that, etc.” I shouted: “What country? What are you talking about?” I immediately take a stand, especially if my husband is attacked! I didn’t really know what was going on because he doesn’t speak a word of French… In retrospect, I found it very funny. I made a scene because there is this idea that the world is contained in a nutshell, a microcosm of tolerance, of racism… In English we say: “in one word”, literally “in a nutshell”, meaning “in short, in a nutshell”. If Marwan had been Ukrainian, this madman would not have mattered! »
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