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SAINT OMER (2022)

SAINT OMER (2022)

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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 (Guslagie Malanda) accused of murdering her infant daughter, novelist Rama (Kayije Kagame) 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 in order to plumb the unsettling unknowability of the human soul.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

  • New 2K digital master, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
  • New and archival interviews with director Alice Diop
  • Conversation between Diop and author Hélène Frappat
  • Conversation between Diop and filmmaker Dee Rees from a 2023 episode of The Director’s Cut – A DGA Podcast
  • Trailer
  • New English subtitle translation
  • PLUS: An essay by critic Jennifer Padjemi

    New design by Michael Boland

2024-03-26

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