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Saint Omer (2022)

Drama | 122 minutes
3,01 75 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 122 minuten

Country: France

Directed by: Alice Diop

Stars: Kayije Kagame, Guslagie Malanda and Atillahan Karagedik

IMDb score: 6,8 (6.199)

Releasedate: 23 November 2022

Saint Omer plot

Rama attends Laurence Coly's trial in Sint-Omaars. Coly is accused of leaving her baby daughter on the beach after which she died. Rama, being the author, wants to implement this event in her adaptation of the Medea myth. Unforeseen circumstances arise during the trial and Rama must rethink her own relationship to motherhood.

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mrklm

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Writer Rama [Kayije Kagame] is preparing for a modern adaptation of the Medea myth and so visits the trial of Laurence Coly [Guslagi Malanda] who murdered her 16-month-old daughter. Lawsuits are by definition difficult to film because of the static, but Diop really makes no effort to make it visually interesting. And so you're watching people talking filmed in static shots. In between sessions, we see Rama doing completely uninteresting or vague things, such as sleeping. Won a number of prestigious awards, including a César for best debut! I'll just say it...

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hvdriel

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If you want to know the good intentions and ideas of the story of this film, read the review of The philosopher below.

The story makes you think about the mother-daughter relationship and how it can also be understood from an African culture. There is nothing wrong with that story - cast in a courtroom drama - certainly not how this story is embedded in film history (Hiroshima, mon amour by Resnais, and Medea by Pasolini) and music culture (Nina Simone at the end).

With the film, however, it is, to put it ugly. Leave out the close-ups, and you're left with a straight-forward story that doesn't captivate and sometimes even bores you. Fortunately, the lawyer's closing argument is an exception to this: poignant, partly because of the cinematic portrayal.

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Movsin

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A movie that takes place in a courtroom but is ultimately not a real movie in the genre.

The long shots of the defendant and the restless, apparently involved, writer in the room already suggest that something more is going on.

The defense lawyer's closing statement and whatever happens to Rama make it clear.

This is a deep psychological drama about pregnancy and being a mother and what is related to it, the security between mother and daughter, much more intimate than imagined, the doubts, the insecurities, the fears, the helplessness, the confusion and in the case of Laurence, racism (see the thus tinted and trivial testimony of her professor).

A movie you have to enter. The jury of the FFG opted for a complex, captivating film.

Very successful performances and director Alice Diop seems worth following to me.

And Rodgers & Hart's "Little Girl Blue" was also in place.

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