- Description:
- BluRay - Zone A. viewing copy. 1 videodisc of 1.
24 fps
Titles
+ Saint Omer
- Director:
- Diop, Alice
- Production Co:
- Srab Films, Arte France Cinéma, Pictanovo
- Running Time:
- Feature. 123 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - 5.1 Dolby surround
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 2022
- Language:
- French with English subtitles.
- Genre:
- Drama, Courtroom
- Notes:
- 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 (Guslagie Malanda) accused of murdering her infant daughter, novelist Rama (Kayije Kagame) 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 in order to plumb the unsettling unknowability of the human soul.
+ Alice Diop - 2022 Interview
- Production Co:
- Srab Films, Arte Filme Cinéma
- Running Time:
- Short. 10 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Year:
- 2022
- Language:
- French with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Interview
- Notes:
- In this interview, recorded in 2022, director Alice Diop recalls attending the trail that inspired her first fiction feature, Saint Omer, and discusses the universal themes of the film.
+ Alice Diop - 2023 Interview
- Production Co:
- Srab Films, Arte Filme Cinéma
- Running Time:
- Audio recording. 9 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 2023
- Language:
- French with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Interview
- Notes:
- In this audio interview, recorded by the Criterion Collection in 2023, director Alice Diop reflects on developing Saint Omer; collaborating with her cowriters, editor Amrita David and author Maria Ndiaye; and shooting the film’s final scenes.
+ Alice Diop and Hélène Frappat
- Production Co:
- Maison de la Poésie
- Running Time:
- Event Documentation. 64 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby digital monaural
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 2023
- Language:
- French with English subtitles
- Genre:
- Interview
- Notes:
- In this conversation, recorded at Maison de la poésie in Paris in July 2023, director Alice Diop and film scholar Hélène Frappat discuss their creative friendship, the importance of language in their work, and the making of Saint Omer.
+ Alice Diop and Dee Rees
- Production Co:
- Director’s Guild of America
- Running Time:
- Audio recording. 31 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 2023
- Language:
- English with optional English subtitles.
- Genre:
- Interview, Audio Recording
- Notes:
- In this audio conversation, originally recorded in 2023 for The Director’s Cut - A Directors Guild of America Podcast, director Alice Diop speaks with filmmaker Dee Rees about her creative process.
+ Saint Omer Trailer
- Running Time:
- Trailer. 2 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - Dolby
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 2022
- Language:
- French with English subtitles.
- Genre:
- Trailer
- Notes:
- Original theatrical trailer for Saint Omer.