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 ...

This ambiguity takes mesmerizing form in Saint Omer, the strikingly confident feature debut of Alice Diop, a 43-year-old French filmmaker born of Senegalese immigrants. Based on an actual criminal ...

When the themes of motherhood and murder intersect, it’s a not an easy amble in a park. Saint Omer is inspired by the real-life case of Fabienne Kabou, a Senegalese immigrant who was found ...

“Saint Omer,” Alice Diop’s first nondocumentary feature, is a courtroom drama and also an unusual kind of true-crime chronicle. In 2016, Fabienne Kabou appeared in a provincial French ...

For one week, Diop sat in a courtroom in the French town of Saint-Omer and listened as Kabou described leaving Adélaïde on the beach of Berck-sur-Mer, where her body would be swallowed by the ...

I’d have sworn that I saw this in the French director Alice Diop’s film “Saint Omer,” yet I’d also swear that I didn’t—because, although no such scene is included in the movie ...

The Palm Springs International Film Festival announced winners for this year’s event, with “Saint Omer,” the charged courtroom drama that is the French selection for this year’s Oscars ...

A24’s The Whale crossed the $11-million mark in week six as it jumped to 1,500 screens from 835 as the Brendan Fraser-starrer and other contenders continue to tweak theatrical runs through ...