Bibliograph

Saint Omer, SRAB Films ; written by Alcie Diop, Amrita David, Marie NDiaye ; directed by Alice Diop

Type

Label

Saint Omer, SRAB Films ; written by Alcie Diop, Amrita David, Marie NDiaye ; directed by Alice Diop

Language

fre

Characteristic

videorecording

Main title

Saint Omer

Oclc number

1419211968

Responsibility statement

SRAB Films ; written by Alcie Diop, Amrita David, Marie NDiaye ; directed by Alice Diop

Runtime

123

Series statement

The Criterion collection, 1212

Summary

Bringing a documentarian's sense of open-ended inquiry to her first narrative feature, writer-director Alice Diop constructs a morally and emotionally layered courtroom drama unlike any other. When she travels to Saint-Omer, France, to attend the trial of a young Senegalese woman accused of murdering her infant daughter, novelist Rama finds herself shaken to the core by a case that proves to have profound resonances with her own life. 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 to plumb the unsettling unknowability of the human soul

Target audience

adult

Technique

live action

Classification