Saint Omer
Film details
| Film Title | Saint Omer |
|---|---|
| Suitability | |
| Genre | |
| Length | 122mins |
| Year | 2022 |
| Country | France |
| Director | Alice Diop |
| Actors | Kayije Kagame, Guslagie Malanda, Valérie Dréville |
| Language | French |
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Follows Rama, a novelist who attends the trial of Laurence Coly at the Saint-Omer Criminal Court to use her story to write a modern-day adaptation of the ancient myth of Medea, but things don’t go as expected.
The screenplay, alongside Kagmae’s restrained performance, takes its time to connect the dots, making Saint Omer’s payoff even grander.
★★★★★
Diop deftly depicts the two women as distorted mirror images of each other: Rama recognises something in Laurence even as she abhors her crime.
★★★★
Diop’s direction of Saint Omer is spare in style but dense in emotional intelligence, heavy with its own inquiries. The visual set-ups seem simple, but they are constantly carving away at the harrowing question of what people are thinking.
★★★★
