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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.
Nov 23, 2022 · Based on a true story, the film follows a novelist who attends the trial of a mother accused of killing her daughter on a beach. She uses the case as inspiration for a modern adaptation of the Medea myth and explores her own identity as a Senegalese immigrant in France.
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- Drama
- Alice Diop
- 2022-11-23
Jan 13, 2023 · Powered by JustWatch. 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.
Jan 13, 2023 · 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 13, 2023 · Richard Brody reviews “Saint Omer,” Alice Diop’s courtroom drama about a woman who is charged with infanticide, and the power of language to spark imagination.
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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When she travels to Saint-Omer, France, to attend the trial of a young Senegalese woman (Guslagie Malanda) accused of murdering her infant daughter, novelist Rama (Kayije Kagame) finds herself shaken to the core by a case that proves to have profound resonances with her own life.
