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Get out and about. Major events in the Saint-Omer region. The calendar of events of the year. The Pays de Saint-Omer beats to the rhythm of its events all year round, and each season welcomes its annual events. From major festivals to craft fairs, you’re likely to find the event that suits you. JANUARY.
Dec 11, 2022 · Saint Omer. 2022. France. Directed by Alice Diop. Screenplay by Diop, Amrita David, Marie N’Diaye, Zoé Galeron. With Kayije Kagame, Guslagie Malanda. 122 min. Motherhood and sacrifice: the two have long been thought inseparable. But what if the sacrifice is of one’s own child, whether out of noble vengefulness (Medea), the agony of a worse fate (slavery in Toni Morrison’s Beloved), or ...
- Alice Diop
- December 11, 2022
Sep 16, 2022 · And she uses that same documentary nous to full effect in Saint Omer. The story's based on the real-life trial of Fabienne Kabou in 2015, a Senegalese immigrant accused of murdering her 15-month ...
- Alice Diop
The film follows the novelist Rama (Kayije Kagame) as she attends the trial of Laurence Coly (Guslagie Malanga), a young woman accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter by abandoning her to the rising tide on a beach in northern France. As the trial continues, the words of the accused and witness testimonies will shake Rama’s convictions ...
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- Alice Diop
The first feature film by Alice Diop is based on an actual 2015 murder trial in Saint Omer that she attended as a journalist, and would ultimately transform into an award-winning movie. Laurence Coly (as played by the enigmatic Guslagie Malanda). Standing in for the director is Rama, an accomplished journalist sent to cover the trial.
View trailer. Saint Omer, dir. Alice Diop, France 2022, 122 min., French with English subtitles, 12A. Acclaimed filmmaker Alice Diop delivers a riveting and utterly unmissable courtroom drama. The film follows novelist Rama who attends the trial of Laurence Coly, a young woman accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter.
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 (Guslagie Malanda) accused of murdering her infant daughter, novelist Rama (Kayije Kagame) finds herself shaken ...
