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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Alice Diop’s Saint Omer is a movie about a trial. But it is not strictly concerned with the question of innocence or guilt as a problem of the law. Far more complex, the movie finds, is the ...

“Saint Omer,” Alice Diop’s first nondocumentary feature, is a courtroom drama and also an unusual kind of true-crime chronicle. In 2016, Fabienne Kabou appeared in a provincial French ...

But is it a mask? Saint Omer leaves that for the viewer to determine, as the film lays down its cards in eloquent succession. The overwhelming pressure of an immigrant to have a better life.

Documentarian Alice Diop's extraordinary fiction debut retells a 2016 infanticide case while casually inventing a wrenching new grammar for the true-life tragedy genre. Instead, positioned on a ...

The Palm Springs International Film Festival announced the juried winners of the 34th edition Sunday, with “Saint Omer,” directed by Alice Diop, receiving the FIPRESCI prize for foreign film ...

Cloaked in the sheep’s clothing of a courtroom drama, Saint Omer is a provocative consideration of how race is performed as well as projected (particularly when it comes to Black women in the ...

“After going through all the stages with Alice of making Saint Omer, I realized that being an actress, actually, was always in my gut — maybe since the beginning of my life,” Malanda says no ...