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.