Bibliograph

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, DVD/Widescreen

Type

Label

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, DVD/Widescreen

Language

fre

Characteristic

videorecording

Main title

Saint Omer.

Oclc number

1417710021

Responsibility statement

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

Runtime

123

Series statement

Criterion collection

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

Target audience

adult

Technique

live action

resource.version

DVD/Widescreen

Classification