In “Saint Omer,” director Alice Diop takes a murder trial where what happened is never truly in doubt and uses the inquiry to explore everything that swirls in the air around it. The film artfully connects a woman who drowned her daughter, Laurence Coly (Guslaigie Malanda), with a ...
That definition perfectly applies toSaint Omer, a film that explores the complex nature of words. Can we trust them? Can we trust Laurence’s story? From the point of view of the law, she is a criminal that has to be incarcerated, but the film implies that this is ...
In 'Saint Omer,' Alice Diop chronicles the trial of a Franco-Senegalese mother who committed infanticide.
Malanda says she often spoke for an unbroken 40 minutes from the stand — all of this meticulously written — even though only about 15 minutes of such sequences made it into the final film. Saint Omer is a two-hour train ride from Paris, where Malanda lives. During the first weekend ...