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Criterion Collection / Saint Omer
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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Bringing a documentarian’s sense of open-ended inquiry to her first narrative feature, writer-director Alice Diop constructs a moralIy and emotionally Iayered courtroom drama unlike any other. When she travels to Saint-Omer, France, to attend the trial of a young SenegaIese woman (GusIagie Malanda) accused of murdering her infant daughter, novelist Rama (Kayije Kagame) finds herself shaken to the core by a case that proves to have profound resonances with her own Iife. lnterweaving complex themes of mother-daughter bonds, immigrant aIienation, and postcoIoniaI 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.
DlRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDlTlON FEATURES
New 2K digitaI master, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrackNew 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 PodcastTraiIerNew English subtitle translationPLUS: An essay by critic Jennifer Padjemi |
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