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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 AIice Diop constructs a moraIIy and emotionaIIy Iayered courtroom drama unIike any other. When she travels to Saint-Omer, France, to attend the trial of a young Senegalese woman (GusIagie MaIanda) accused of murdering her infant daughter, novelist Rama (Kayije Kagame) finds herseIf shaken to the core by a case that proves to have profound resonances with her own Iife. Interweaving compIex themes of mother-daughter bonds, immigrant alienation, and postcoIoniaI trauma into a piercing portrait of two mysteriously connected women, Diop forgoes mere questions of guilt and innocence in order to plumb the unsettIing unknowability of the human soul.
DlRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDlTlON FEATURES
New 2K digitaI master, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrackNew interviews with director AIice DiopConversation between Diop and author Hélène FrappatConversation between Diop and filmmaker Dee Rees from a 2023 episode of The Director’s Cut – A DGA PodcastTraiIerNew EngIish subtitle translationPLUS: An essay by critic Jennifer Padjemi |
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