Alice Diop on Saint Omer | NYFF60

Director Alice Diop discusses Saint Omer, a Main Slate selection of this year’s festival, moderated by NYFF Main Slate committee member, Florence Almozini.
Saint Omer opens on Jan. 13 at Film at Lincoln Center. Learn more: www.filmlinc.org/films/saint-...
Rama (Kayije Kagame), a successful journalist and author living in Paris, has come to Saint Omer, a town in the north of France, to attend the trial of a young Senegalese woman, Laurence Coly (Guslagie Malanda), who allegedly murdered her baby daughter. Although she admits to killing the child, she cannot or will not provide motivation, claiming it was a kind of sorcery out of her control. Rama’s plan to write about Laurence in a book inspired by the Medea myth increasingly unravels as she becomes overwhelmed by the case and reckons with memories of her immigrant mother as well as her own impending motherhood. In her consummate fiction feature debut, Alice Diop (We) constructs an arresting yet highly sensitive, superbly acted film of constantly revealing layers. Saint Omer is at once a tense courtroom drama, a work of abstracted psychological portraiture, an inquiry into human agency, and a provocative examination of the limits of myth and cross-cultural knowledge. A SUPER release.
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[@annieblondel]

Extraordinaire Alice, bravo. Les productions occidentales ne sont pas toujours ouvertes a comprendre l'esprit intelligent d'une cineaste africaine. Les relations inexplicables corps, esprits, âmes sont limitées dans le langage occidentale. Les relations mere et fille dans leur ESSENCE sont les meme partout si nos les "êtres humains" arrivent a se detacher de l'engluement materiel du corps. L'essence d'une âme ne peut pas toujours être interprétée. J'encourage les africains cineaste a produire plus de fictions. You are amazing Alice.

[@maryseo.]

Elle est française ET sénégalaise. 😊

[@catchmeifyoucan1095]

I want to now if Alice Diop actually met Laurence? Did she have permission from Laurence to fictionalise her life and story?