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Jan 12, 2023 · The job of the judge and jury in Saint Omer, the small city in northern France where the trial takes place, is to figure out why Laurence killed Elise and to pass sentence on her.
- The New York Times
In his Critic’s Pick review for The Times, A.O. Scott called...
- The New York Times
Jan 16, 2023 · In his Critic’s Pick review for The Times, A.O. Scott called “Saint Omer” an “intellectually charged, emotionally wrenching story about the inability of storytelling — literary, legal or ...
- Esther Zuckerman
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 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 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.
Jan 6, 2023 · Anthony Lane reviews Alice Diop’s “Saint Omer,” and “Turn Every Page,” Lizzie Gottlieb’s documentary about her father—the editor Robert Gottlieb—and the writer Robert Caro.
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Sep 7, 2022 · ‘Saint Omer’ Review: Alice Diop Reorients a Horrifying True Crime in Her First Narrative Outing. Although technically a work of fiction, “Saint Omer” is fiercely documentary-like in its...
