Alice Diop’s French drama Saint Omer opens in theaters today, and I remember the emotions I felt when I saw the film at Venice last year. It was a very personal experience for me — as if ...

Guslagie Malanda in ‘Saint Omer.’ Neon. On the surface, Saint Omer doesn’t present itself as a particularly riveting film. It is, after all, set primarily in a French courtroom. But the ...

Saint Omer begins with Diop's surrogate, Rama (Kayije Kagame), a successful intellectual writer who has a white musician boyfriend and a Senegalese mother she can't quite stand. She heads off from ...

Alice Diop’s Saint Omer is a movie about a trial.But it is not strictly concerned with the question of innocence or guilt as a problem of the law. Far more complex, the movie finds, is the ...

Based on a real trial that took place in 2016 and was witnessed by the filmmaker Alice Diop, a specialist in documentaries who co-wrote and directed “Saint Omer,” the film inverts the ...

From the second day of Passover until Shavuot, Jews count seven weeks to commemorate the period between the Exodus from Egypt and the Revelation at Sinai.This process, sefirat ha’omer (the ...

Saint Omer: An intense exploration of motherhood and murder. Inspired by a harrowing true story, the experience of making Saint Omer was so intense, its director Alice Diop fainted on set.