Saint Omer (film)
2022 film by Alice Diop / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Saint Omer is a 2022 French legal drama film directed by Alice Diop and starring Kayije Kagame and Guslagie Malanda. It is Diop's first narrative feature after working as a documentary filmmaker. In the film, Rama (Kagame) is a pregnant young novelist who attends the trial of Laurence Coly (Malanda), a Senegalese woman accused of murdering her 15-month-old child by leaving her on a beach to be swept away by the tide, in order to turn the tragic event into a literary retelling of Medea. It is based on the French court case of Fabienne Kabou, who was convicted of the same crime. Diop attended Kabou's trial in 2016.
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Directed by | Alice Diop |
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Cinematography | Claire Mathon |
Edited by | Amrita David |
Music by | Thibault Deboaisne |
Production company | Srab Films |
Distributed by | Les Films du losange |
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Running time | 122 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Box office | $822,891[1] |
The film premiered in-competition at the 79th Venice International Film Festival on 7 September 2022,[2] where it won the Silver Lion Grand Jury prize along with the Luigi De Laurentiis Lion of the Future award.[3][4] Additional screenings were held at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival and the 2022 New York Film Festival before the theatrical release in France on 23 November 2022.[5][6] The film was selected as the French entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards,[7] and made the December shortlist.[8] The film received the Grand Prix for Best Film at Film Fest Gent in 2022.