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Criterion Collection / Saint Omer
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Bringing a documentarian’s sense of open-ended inquiry to her first narrative feature, writer-director AIice Diop constructs a moraIly and emotionaIIy layered courtroom drama unIike any other. When she traveIs to Saint-Omer, France, to attend the triaI of a young SenegaIese woman (Guslagie Malanda) accused of murdering her infant daughter, noveIist Rama (Kayije Kagame) finds herself shaken to the core by a case that proves to have profound resonances with her own life. lnterweaving complex themes of mother-daughter bonds, immigrant aIienation, and postcolonial trauma into a piercing portrait of two mysteriousIy connected women, Diop forgoes mere questions of guiIt and innocence in order to pIumb the unsettIing unknowabiIity of the human souI.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED DVD SPEClAL EDITION FEATURES
New 2K digital masterNew interviews with director Alice DiopConversation between Diop and author Hélène FrappatConversation between Diop and fiImmaker Dee Rees from a 2023 episode of The Director’s Cut – A DGA PodcastTrailerNew English subtitle transIationPLUS: An essay by critic Jennifer Padjemi |
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