Movie review: Spellbinding, 3.5-star SaintOmer straddles truth and fiction. SUPERltdfilm
"Saint Omer" -- ★ ★ ★ ½ First, the real-life facts of the case, more shocking than you'll find in most fiction: In November 2013, a mother took a train from Paris to the northern French coast, along with her 15-month old daughter. She checked into a hotel, walked down to the water at night, fed the hungry child, and left her to drown at high tide.
What emerged from that experience is the spellbinding"Saint Omer," Diop's debut feature, but really a film that exists somewhere in the space between documentary and scripted narrative, between truth and fiction. Most crucially, it's a film so original in approach that one feels only Diop could have made or even conceived of it.
Soon Rama , like Diop, is traveling to the coast and settling onto a bench into a wood-paneled courtroom where defendant Laurence Coly, a fictional stand-in for Kabou, is facing a methodical but incredulous judge . Lacking resources to survive, Laurence finally had to stop her studies and move in with an older white boyfriend, Luc, who hid their relationship from his own family. When she became pregnant, keeping the child against Luc's wishes, she withdrew completely from the world. When Luc is on the stand, the judge draws out how this supposedly devoted father didn't even attend the baby's funeral -- it was too far, the man complains."It was very abstract to me.
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