By the end of 'Saint Omer,' with Nina Simone’s version of “Little Girl Blue” accompanying images of the empty streets, filmmaker Alice Diop turns courtroom drama into poetry.
Guslagie Malanda stars as Laurence in director Alice Diop’s “Saint Omer.”
“Saint Omer” marks the narrative feature debut of the French documentary filmmaker Alice Diop. Set mostly in the northeastern French town of the title, it concerns a Paris professor following a murder trial there as primary research for her next book.
Twice her age, a weak and self-serving man still married to someone else, Laurence’s lover apparently kept Laurence, and then their unwanted child, squirreled away from the rest of his life. This “isolated, invisible woman,” as the counselor calls her, turned inward, started hallucinating and finally killed her child at high tide.
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