Plots(1)
Rama, a successful journalist and author living in Paris, has come to Saint Omer, a town in the north of France, to attend the trial of a young Senegalese woman, Laurence Coly, who allegedly murdered her baby daughter. Although she admits to killing the child, she cannot or will not provide motivation, claiming it was a kind of sorcery out of her control. Rama’s plan to write about Laurence in a book inspired by the Medea myth increasingly unravels as she becomes overwhelmed by the case and reckons with memories of her immigrant mother as well as her own impending motherhood. In her consummate fiction feature debut, Alice Diop constructs an arresting yet highly sensitive, superbly acted film of constantly revealing layers. Saint Omer is at once a tense courtroom drama, a work of abstracted psychological portraiture, an inquiry into human agency, and a provocative examination of the limits of myth and cross-cultural knowledge. (Super LTD)
(more)Cast
Kayije Kagame
Best movies:
Saint Omer (2022)
Guslagie Malanda
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The Romanoffs (2018) (series)
Saint Omer (2022)
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Aurélia Petit
Best movies:
La Commune (Paris, 1871) (2000)
The Science of Sleep (2006)
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Valérie Dréville
France
Best movies:
My American Uncle (1980)
24 Hours in the Life of a Woman (2002)
The Sentinel (1992)
Atillahan Karagedik
Best movies:
A Time for Drunken Horses (2000)
Saint Omer (2022)