Saint Omer
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
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
Cast
- Kayije Kagame
- Rama
- Guslagie Malanda
- Laurence Coly
- Valérie Dréville
- Investigating judge
- Aurélia Petit
- Councilor Vaudenay
- Xavier Maly
- Luc Dumontet
- Robert Cantarella
- Prosecuting attorney
- Salimata Kamate
- Odile Diatta
- Thomas de Pourquery
- Adrien
Credits
- Director
- Alice Diop
- Written by
- Alice Diop
- Written by
- Amrita David
- Written by
- Marie NDiaye
- Script consultant
- Zoé Galeron
- Cinematography by
- Claire Mathon
- Edited by
- Amrita David
- Sound by
- Dana Farzanehpour
- Sound by
- Lucile Demarquet
- Sound by
- Josefina Rodriguez
- Sound by
- Emmanuel Croset
- Produced by
- Toufik Ayadi
- Produced by
- Christophe Barral
Trailer for Saint Omer
