Saint Omer

Name: Saint Omer
Genre: Drama
Released: January 13, 2023
Duration: 122 min
Rating: 91
Cast: Adama Diallo Tamba, Atillahan Karagedik, Aurélia Petit, Ege Güner, Fatih Sahin

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Super LTD | Release Date: January 13, 2023 | Not Rated

Starring: Adama Diallo Tamba, Atillahan Karagedik, Aurélia Petit, Ege Güner, Fatih Sahin, Guslagie Malanga, Kayije Kagame, Lionel Top, Mariam Diop, Mustili, Robert Cantarella, Salih Sigirci, Salimata Kamate, Thomas de Pourquery, Valérie Dréville, Xavier Maly

Summary: Saint Omer court of law. Young novelist Rama attends the trial of Laurence Coly, a young woman accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter by abandoning her to the rising tide on a beach in northern France. But as the trial continues, the words of the accused and witness testimonies will shake Rama’s convictions and call into question ourSaint Omer court of law. Young novelist Rama attends the trial of Laurence Coly, a young woman accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter by abandoning her to the rising tide on a beach in northern France. But as the trial continues, the words of the accused and witness testimonies will shake Rama’s convictions and call into question our own judgment.… Expand

Director: Alice Diop

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 122 min

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Jessica Kiang

Sep 17, 2022

Saint Omer challenges accepted ideas of perspective, of subjectivity and objectivity — and even of what cinema can be when it’s framed by an intelligence that doesn’t accept those accepted ideas. Read full review

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Murtada Elfadl

Jan 13, 2023

This is a rich text, bracing for the minutiae it includes and for what it excises. Its power comes from a director who knows exactly what story they want to tell and how to tell it well. Read full review

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Tara Brady

Feb 3, 2023

Despite the claustrophobic setting, Diop crafts an evocative modern retelling of Medea, with detailed notes on femininity, immigration and race. Read full review

Barry Hertz

Jan 17, 2023

Whether, in making Saint Omer, Diop has found the answers that she’s been searching for since 2016 remains an open question. But the truth of the film is that she has certainly compelled her audience to take a complicated, fraught, and harrowing journey of their own. Read full review

Jocelyn Noveck

Jan 12, 2023

Most crucially, it’s a film so original in approach that one feels only Diop could have made or even conceived of it. Read full review

The Film Stage Jake Kring-Schreifels

Oct 7, 2022

Saint Omer isn’t a movie concerned specifically with a verdict. It asks you to listen, to observe and consider a tragedy and its ripples within a community. Read full review

Kyle Smith

Jan 12, 2023

Throughout this dry, dull and bloodless movie, nothing like an honest grappling with the depravity of killing one’s own infant ever seems to occupy anyone’s attention. Read full review

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QLA1992

Jan 19, 2023

A stellarly creepy supporting turn can't overcome amateurish technical production, lacklustre lead acting and glacial pacing.

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JVS8

Jan 25, 2023

Slow paced and no real narrative. The story is disjointed leaving viewers uninterrested in the characters or their respective struggles.

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