MOVIE REVIEW: French true-crime drama SAINT OMER gives sharp insight into the immigrant experience.
Based closely on the 2016 trial of Fabienne Kabou, a Senegalese woman convicted of murdering her infant daughter by abandoning the 15-month-old on a beach at rising tide in Northern France,follows the structural conventions of a typical courtroom drama. However, filmmaker Alice Diop uses those tropes to pursue a complex meditation on the emotional spaces that separate us from one another; to realize how wide the chasm is between us, or to recognize that there is no distance there at all.
For French-born Senegalese woman Rama , a novelist and university lecturer in Paris , the trial is material for her next book. After a prologue that lays out Rama’s entire dynamic with her family with a brilliant, often wordless economy , she travels to the courthouse in the city of Saint-Omer to witness the trial. The accused, here named Laurence Coly , initially offers a blunt motive for the crime: “It would make life easier.
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