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Saint Omer

2022 · 123 min

A quiet, intense courtroom drama that immerses you in psychological and cultural tensions, leaving a lingering emotional weight.

Directed by
Alice Diop
Genres
Drama, Crime
Starring
Kayije Kagame, Guslagie Malanda, Aurélia Petit
Overview
A novelist attends the trial of a woman accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter by abandoning her to the rising tide on a beach in northern France. But as the trial continues, her own family history, doubts, and fears about motherhood are steadily dislodged as the life story of the accused is gradually revealed.

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Directed by
Alice Diop
Genres
Drama, Crime
Starring
Kayije Kagame, Guslagie Malanda, Aurélia Petit
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How it feels

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Tone
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • identity
  • isolation
  • parenthood
  • race
  • guilt
Places
  • big city
  • small town
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror2
Humour1
Realism9
Romance1
Tension6
Darkness7
Complexity8
Emotional weight9

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Genres
drama, crime
Directed by
Alice Diop
Written by
Marie N'Diaye, Amrita David, Alice Diop
Starring
Kayije Kagame, Guslagie Malanda, Aurélia Petit, Valérie Dréville, Xavier Maly, Robert Cantarella, Salimata Kamate, Thomas De Pourquery
Cinematography
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Runtime
123 min
Country
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Languages
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