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Saint Omer / written by Alcie Diop, Amrita David, Marie NDiaye ; directed by Alice Diop.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher 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
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 9798886071214
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Production credits:
  • Director, Alice Diop.
Cast: Kayije Kagame, Guslagie Malanda, Valerie Dreville, Aurélia Petit.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.
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Adult DVD Adult DVD Dr. James Carlson Library DVD New WORLD SAINT OM Checked out 06/01/2024 33111010018824
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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.

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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!

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