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Sep 28, 2022 · A switch in majors (to philosophy) soon damaged her bond with her parents, and when a nanny job fell through after she was financially cut off by her dad, the 24-year-old Laurence turned to Luc...
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Mar 8, 2023 · When the judge (Valérie Dréville) asks Laurence why she killed her child, she responds that she does not know and adds, without stopping to think: “I hope the trial will give me the answer.”
Jan 13, 2023 · The judge (Valérie Dréville) questions Laurence about her childhood, during which she felt pressured by her parents’ obsession with her success, and her move to France to escape them.
Interweaving complex themes of mother-daughter bonds, immigrant alienation, and postcolonial trauma into a piercing portrait of two mysteriously connected women, Diop forgoes mere questions of guilt and innocence in order to plumb the unsettling unknowability of the human soul.
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Saint Omer is based on the 2016 court case of Fabienne Kabou, who was convicted of killing her daughter in 2013, in the same way as Coly. Diop followed the case and immediately recognized Kabou's features from news footage as being Senegalese, which is Diop's family heritage.
Jan 12, 2023 · She buys every newspaper with a story about the case, as if she were the proud parent of a spelling-bee champion. Odile was, we can infer, a dominant, difficult presence in her daughter’s life.
Jan 13, 2023 · When questioning Laurence, the presiding judge (played by Valérie Dréville) starts by examining the defendant’s entire life story—birth and childhood, family and friends, interests and ...
