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1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
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Criterion collection #1212
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Originally released as a motion picture in 2022
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
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Special features: New and archival interviews with director Alice Diop; Conversation between Diop and author Heĺeǹe 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
Kayije Kagame, Guslagie Malanda, Valerie Dreville, Aurélia Petit
IMDB rating: PG-13
Blu-ray, region A: wide screen; DTS-HD master audio 5.1; requires Blu-ray player
French dialogue; English subtitles