Saint Omer / written by Alcie Diop, Amrita David, Marie NDiaye ; directed by Alice Diop.
Material type: FilmPublisher number: CC3536D | The Criterion Collection1212 | The Criterion CollectionLanguage: French Original language: French Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 1212.Publisher: [United States] : The Criterion Collection, 2024Edition: Widescreen editionDescription: 1 videodisc (approximately 123 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:- two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- 9798886071214
- Director, Alice Diop.
Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult DVD | Dr. James Carlson Library | DVD | New | WORLD SAINT OM | Checked out | 06/01/2024 | 33111010018824 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
DVD, widescreen (1.85:1); Dolby 5.1 surround; NTSC, region 1.
French dialogue; English subtitles.
Title from container.
Kayije Kagame, Guslagie Malanda, Valerie Dreville, Aurélia Petit.
Director, Alice Diop.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2022.
Wide screen.
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.
Special features: new interview with Diop; conversations featuring Diop, filmmaker Dee Rees, and author Hélène Frappat; and more!