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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
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- 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.
Sep 16, 2022 · The story's based on the real-life trial of Fabienne Kabou in 2015, a Senegalese immigrant accused of murdering her 15-month-old baby. Diop attended the trial and took copious notes, with dialogue...
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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.
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 colonialism.
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Sep 7, 2022 · Saint Omer, which premieres at Venice in competition, is a spellbinding chamber drama about the isolation of motherhood, the grief of parenting and racial interpellation.
