Format:
DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials
Title:
Saint Omer [videorecoding] / Srab Films présente ; une coproduction Srab Films, Arte France Cinéma, Pictanovo Hauts-de-France ; un film de Alice Diop ; écrit par Alice Diop, Amrita David et Marie NDiaye ; produit par Toufik Ayadi et Christophe Barral.
Edition:
[DVD] ; Director-approved DVD special edition.
Publisher, Date:
[New York, NY] : The Criterion Collection, [2024]
©2024, 2022
Description:
1 videodisc (approximately 123 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert
4 3/4 in.
polychrome
digital
optical
surround
Dolby digital 5.1
sound
1.85:1
wide screen
NTSC
video file
DVD video
region 1
Motion pictures
DVD
Rated PG-13
General
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 postcolonial 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:
Mother and child -- Drama.
Immigrants -- France -- Drama.
Immigrants -- Senegal -- Drama.
Trials (Murder) -- Drama.
Senegalese -- France -- Drama.
Saint-Omer (Pas-de-Calais, France) -- Drama.
Genre:
Motion pictures, French.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Legal films.
Other Author:
Diop, Alice, 1979- film director, screenwriter.
David, Amrita, screenwriter, editor of moving image work.
NDiaye, Marie, screenwriter.
Ayadi, Toufik, film producer.
Barral, Christophe, film producer.
Kagame, Kayije, actor.
Malanda, Guslagie, actor.
Dréville, Valérie, actor.
Petit, Aurélia, actor.
SRAB Films, presenter, production company.
Arte France cinéma (Firm), production company.
Pictanovo, production company.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
Notes:
Originally released as a motion picture in 2022.
Special features: New and archival interviews with director Alice Diop; Conversation between Diop and author Hélène Frappat; Conversation between Diop and filmmaker Dee Rees from a 2023 episode of The Director's Cut: a DGA podcast; Trailer; Folded insert featuring an essay by critic Jennifer Padjemi.
ISBN:
9798886071214
Publisher or Distributor Number:
CC3536D
1212
Other Number:
1417710021
System Availability:
6
Current Holds:
0
Control Number:
4036213
Call Number:
791.43/72
Course Reserves:
0
# System items in:
2
Medium:
[videorecoding]