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Saint Omer
Title
Saint Omer / Srab Films présente ; une coproduction Srab Films, Arte France Cinéma, Pictanovo Hauts-de-France ; un film de Alice Diop ; écrit par Alice Diop, Amrita David et Marie NDiaye ; produit par Toufik Ayadi et Christophe Barral.
ISBN
9798886071207
Edition
Director-approved Blu-ray special edition.
Publication
[New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2024]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert.
Medium
4 3/4 in.
Notes
Originally released as a motion picture in 2022.
Wide screen (1.85:1).
Special features: New and archival interviews with director Alice Diop; Conversation between Diop and author Hélène Frappat; Conversation between Diop and filmmaker Dee Rees from a 2023 episode of The Director's Cut: a DGA podcast; Trailer; Folded insert featuring an essay by critic Jennifer Padjemi.
Director of photography, Claire Mathon ; editor, Amrita David.
French dialogue; English subtitles.
Summary
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 accused of murdering her infant daughter, novelist Rama finds herself shaken to the core by a case that proves to have profound resonances with her own life. Interweaving complex themes of mother-daughter bonds, immigrant alienation, and postcolonial trauma into a piercing portrait of two mysteriously connected women, Diop forgoes mere questions of guilt and innocence to plumb the unsettling unknowability of the human soul.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
French
Added to Catalog
April 04, 2024
Series
The Criterion collection ; 1212
Credits
Director of photography, Claire Mathon ; editor, Amrita David.
Cast
Kayije Kagame, Guslagie Malanda, Valérie Dréville, Aurélia Petit.
System details note
Blu-ray, region A: wide screen; DTS-HD master audio 5.1; requires Blu-ray player.
Videorecording number
CC3535BD The Criterion Collection
Subjects
Genre/Form
Legal films.
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Films de fiction.
Films judiciaires.
Also listed under
SRAB Films, presenter, production company.
Arte France cinéma (Firm), production company.
Pictanovo, production company.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
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