Review: 'Saint Omer,' France’s Oscar submission for Best International Feature, is an oddly inert courtroom drama about a Senegalese immigrant who drowns her baby
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 stranger script. For starters, the guilt of the woman in the dock, for drowning her infant in the sea, isn’t in question.
The movie takes place mostly in a courtroom in Saint-Omer, a town near the northern shore of France. An author named Rama has obtained a seat for the jury trial of Laurence Coly , a Senegalese-born immigrant who caused her own baby to die in the waters of the English Channel, having taken a train to the town of Berck-sur-Mer for that purpose.
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