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Saint Omer / written by Alcie Diop, Amrita David, Marie NDiaye ; directed by Alice Diop.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD 036 976 disc + insert
Available
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 1212.
- Criterion collection ; 1212
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Murder--Investigation--Drama.
- Murder.
- Senegalese--France--Drama.
- Senegalese.
- Saint-Omer (Pas-de-Calais, France)--Drama.
- Saint-Omer (Pas-de-Calais, France).
- Genre:
- Feature films.
- Fiction films.
- Legal films.
- Motion pictures, French.
- Drama.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (approximately 123 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + insert (1 folded leaf : color illustrations ; 17 cm)
- Edition:
- Director approved DVD special edition.
- Place of Publication:
- [United States] : The Criterion Collection, 2024.
- Language Note:
- French dialogue; optional English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1; widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; Dolby Audio 5.1 surround.
- digital
- optical
- widescreen
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- Bringing a documentarian's sense of open-ended inquiry to her first narrative feature, writer-director Alice Diop constructs a morally and emotionally layered courtroom drama unlike any other. When she travels to Saint-Omer, France, to attend the trial of a young Senegalese woman accused of murdering her infant daughter, novelist Rama finds herself shaken to the core by a case that proves to have profound resonances with her own life. Interweaving complex themes of mother-daughter bonds, immigrant alienation, and postcolonial trauma into a piercing portrait of two mysteriously connected women, Diop forgoes mere questions of guilt and innocence to plumb the unsettling unknowability of the human soul.
- Participant:
- Kayije Kagame, Guslagie Malanda, Valerie Dreville, Aurélia Petit.
- Credits:
- Director, Alice Diop.
- Notes:
- Title from sell sheet.
- Originally released as a motion picture in 2022.
- Wide screen.
- Special features: new interview with Diop; conversations featuring Diop, filmmaker Dee Rees, and author Hélène Frappat; and more!
- ISBN:
- 9798886071214
- OCLC:
- 1417710021
- Publisher Number:
- 715515293815
- CC3536DDVD The Criterion Collection
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