Format:
DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials
Title:
Saint Omer [videorecording] / written by Alcie Diop, Amrita David, Marie NDiaye ; directed by Alice Diop.
Edition:
Widescreen.
Publisher, Date:
[United States] : The Criterion Collection, 2022
Description:
1 videodisc (approximately 123 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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 post colonial 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.
Series:
Criterion collection ; 1212
Subjects:
Murder -- Investigation -- Drama.
Senegalese -- France -- Drama.
Saint-Omer (Pas-de-Calais, France) -- Drama.
Genre:
Foreign films.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Legal films.
Drama.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Other Author:
Diop, Alice, 1979- film director, screenwriter.
David, Amrita, screenwriter.
NDiaye, Marie, screenwriter.
Malanda, Guslagie, actor.
Dréville, Valérie, actor.
Petit, Aurélia, actor.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
Notes:
Title from sell sheet.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2022.
Special features: new interview with Diop; conversations featuring Diop, filmmaker Dee Rees, and author Hélène Frappat; and more!
Director, Alice Diop.
Kayije Kagame, Guslagie Malanda, Valerie Dreville, Aurélia Petit.
DVD, widescreen (1.85:1), Dolby digital 5.1.
French dialogue; English subtitles.
ISBN:
9798886071214
Publisher or Distributor Number:
CC3536DDVD
1212
System Availability:
2
Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
2
Control Number:
3554236
Call Number:
S
Course Reserves:
0
# Local items in:
2
# System items in:
2
Medium:
[videorecording]