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Saint Omer is a 2022 French legal drama film written and directed by Alice Diop, and starring Kayije Kagame and Guslagie Malanda. It is Diop's first narrative feature. Her other films have been documentaries.
With Kayije Kagame, Guslagie Malanda, Valérie Dréville, Aurélia Petit. Follows Rama, a novelist who attends the trial of Laurence Coly at the Saint-Omer Criminal Court to use her story to write a modern-day adaptation of the ancient myth of Medea, but things don't go as expected.
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- Drama
- Alice Diop
- 2022-11-23
Jan 13, 2023 · 6 min read. In 2016, the accomplished documentary filmmaker Alice Diop, sat in the courtroom in the town of Saint-Omer, listening to the chilling testimony of Fabienne Kabou, a French-Senegalese woman accused of killing her infant daughter.
Young novelist Rama attends the trial of Laurence Coly, a young woman accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter by abandoning her to the rising tide on a beach in northern France.
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- Alice Diop
- PG-13
- Kayije Kagame
Jan 18, 2023 · Based on an actual criminal case in France in which a Senegalese woman killed her baby daughter, Alice Diop's film is rigorous, powerful and crackling with ideas about isolation and...
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Sep 7, 2022 · French filmmaker Alice Diop's extraordinary fiction debut 'Saint Omer' invents a radically and wrenchingly personal new grammar for the true-life courtroom drama.