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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Director/cowriter Alice Diop's riveting drama, "Saint Omer" unfolds mostly in a French courtroom where Laurence Coly (Guslagie Malanda), a Senegalese woman, is on trial for murdering her 15-month ...

“Saint Omer” borrows details from a case of infanticide in France, which the director found raised profound but very personal issues. By Esther Zuckerman When the French director Alice Diop ...

France’s “Saint Omer,” which has made it to the 15-film shortlist of contenders for the Academy Award for Best International Feature, has the trappings of a courtroom drama but with a far ...

In it, well-spoken, educated Senegalese immigrant Laurence Coly, like the real Fabienne Kabou only a few years back, stands trial in quaint Saint-Omer in northeastern France for killing her 15 ...

The film follows Rama (Kayije Kagame), a literature professor (and stand-in for Diop), who attends the trial of Laurence Coly (Guslagie Malanga) in the French town of Saint-Omer. Rama, who is ...

The French director (Nous) devoured information about the accused and attended the trial in the northeastern French town of Saint-Omer. The fruits of Diop’s compulsive labor are laid bare in her ...

Legal docudrama Saint Omer was voted Best Picture at the 34 th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival, which announced this year’s juried award winners today. Saint Omer wins for its ...

They are challenging to get right. The best ones, like Alice Diop’s Saint Omer, will give some insight into the human condition, with the director using the courtroom high jinks to ask whether ...

Diop read about the story while pregnant and felt an intimate connection, one that she has written into “Saint Omer” through an alter-ego. Rama (Kayije Kagame) is a pregnant academic who ...