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‘Meet the Barbarians’ Review: Julie Delpy Crafts a Wildly Funny Integration Comedy

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Siddhant Adlakha 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 Paimpont, who vote to welcome a handful of Ukrainian refugees, but are caught by surprise when a Syrian family shows up instead.

The ensuing response runs the gamut from clumsy to hostile, which Delpy captures by applying a documentary-like lens to the town’s fabric, and to their Arab guests.

The result is a movie that, though it never quite achieves the dramatic highs for which it aspires, proves eye-wateringly funny.

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