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  1. A gut-punching contemplation of a woman's immigrant experience, Saint Omer puts a mother on the stand and the audience in the jury box to find humanity in the inhumane. Read Critics Reviews ...

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  2. Saint Omer is a masterful exploration and explosion of courtroom drama conventions with so much more on its mind than innocence and guilt. Full Review | Jun 6, 2023

  3. Jan 13, 2023 · Reviews. Saint Omer. 123 minutes ‧ PG-13 ‧ 2023. Sheila O'Malley. January 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.

  4. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 94% based on 139 reviews, with an average rating of 8.2/10. The website's consensus reads, "A gut-punching contemplation of a woman's immigrant experience, Saint Omer puts a mother on the stand and the audience in the jury box to find humanity in the inhumane."

  5. Sep 7, 2022 · Saint OmerReview: A Quietly Momentous French Courtroom Drama That Subtly But Radically Rewrites the Rules of the Game. Documentarian Alice Diop's extraordinary fiction debut retells a 2016...

  6. 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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  8. Jan 13, 2023 · Richard Brody reviewsSaint Omer,” Alice Diop’s courtroom drama about a woman who is charged with infanticide, and the power of language to spark imagination.