#Kayije Kagame

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Saint Omer (2022) dir. Alice Diop

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“I dreamed of becoming a great philosopher. My ambition was cut short.”

SAINT OMER (2022) dir. Alice Diop

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Every Film I Watch In 2023:

72. Saint Omer (2022)

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Saint Omer (Alice Diop, 2022).

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Saint Omer Alice Diop. 2022

Courthouse 3 Rue des Tribunaux, 62503 Saint-Omer, Francia See in map

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AP: Why do you think you were compelled to go to the trial [of Fabienne Kabou, who one night in 2013 left her 15-month-old daughter on the beach to die]?

DIOP: I went to the trial because I had a very strong intuition. But for a very long time, I didn’t know what it was about. I didn’t think, ‘Oh, I’m going to go to the trial and make a film about it.’ I think as a woman, as actually many other women around me, I was completely fascinated by this story. I really went as a woman. What struck me was a sentence that the defendant said to the police. When the inspector asked, ‘Why did you kill your daughter?’ she said, ‘I laid my daughter on the sand because I wanted the sea to take her away.’ For the French, it carries a very profound, psychoanalytic dimension because in French, the mother and the sea are the same word (mère and mer). In my head, I had the fantasy that she offered her daughter to a mother that was more powerful than she felt. It is this imagery of this mythological concept that became a magnet for me. But during the five days that I listened to this trial, I had no idea that it was going to draw me to the deepest, darkest place of my being.

AP: Having a child myself viscerally changed how I processed movies and stories about children in distress. Did you have an experience like that too, as a mother thinking about a story like this?

DIOP: I can’t exactly say that. But it is true that my partner was very concerned by my obsession with this story. Even for me it was a complete mystery. I did not understand why me, as a Black woman, could be so fascinated by this story of a Black woman that had killed her child. That was incomprehensible to me. I’m going to tell you something very personal, which I never talk about. I actually had a very deep postpartum depression when my child was a baby. And I believe that this trial is what helped me heal out of that depression. I not only forgave myself, but I also forgave my mother. It’s as if this trial was helping me, killing all this trauma.

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Saint Omer, Alice Diop (2022)

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Saint Omer

directed by Alice Diop, 2022

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Once again, it’s time for my always subjective list of favorite films from the previous year. Those playing along at home can note how for the second year in a row my list is topped by a movie which, among other subjects, is a musing on grief. Feel free to draw whatever conclusions you suspect this says about me and/or society at large . . .

1. Aftersun (Charlotte Wells)

If your heart doesn’t melt at least once whilst watch this, I’m sorry, you simply don’t have one . . .

2. No Bears (Jafar Panahi)

3. Saint Omer (Alice Diop)                  

4. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras)

5. EO (Jerzy Skolimoski)

6. Happening (Audrey Diwan)

7. Nope (Jordan Peele)

8. Lost Illusions (Xavier Giannoli)

9. Armageddon Time (James Gray)

10. Decision to Leave (Park Chan-wook)

11. The Pupils (Alice Rohrwacher)

12. Corsage (Marie Kreutzer)

13. The Eternal Daughter (Joanna Hogg)

14. The Girl and the Spider (Ramon Zurcher & Silvan Zurcher)

15. One Fine Morning (Mia Hansen-Love)

16. The Tsugua Diaries (Miguel Gomes & Maureen Fazendeiro)

17. Fire of Love (Sara Dosa)

18. In Front of Your Face (Hong Sang-soo)

19. Funny Pages (Owen Kline)

20. Compartment No. 6 (Juho Kuosmanen)

Honorable Mention: TAR (Todd Field). Is there an award for a really great film which completely & utterly falls apart in the final stretch . . .?

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Watch "SAINT OMER - Official UK Trailer - In Cinemas 3 February" on YouTube

Peter Bradshaw's 5-star review in The Guardian here.

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“Next, I will share in your pain and grief, unhappy mother...” — Euripides, Medea (trans. Charles Martin)

KAYIJE KAGAME as RAMA in SAINT OMER (2022) dir. Alice Diop

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Saint Omer (2022) Alice Diop

July 29th 2023

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Reseña | 'Saint Omer' | FICUMAM 13

Con 'Saint Omer', Alice Diop hace una prueba de empatía para las madres imperfectas. Se presentó en la Competencial Internacional del #FICUNAM13

Rama es una novelista embarazada que decide observar el juicio de Laurence Coly y escribir sobre el caso. Coly es una inmigrante senegalesa que vive en Francia y que dejó a su hija de 15 meses en una playa para que la marea se la llevara. Rama planea escribir un recuento moderno del mito griego de Medea sobre el caso. A medida que aprende más sobre la vida de Coly, Rama se vuelve cada vez más…

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SAINT OMER:

Curious writer

Murder suspect intrigues her

To understand why

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Saint Omer Alice Diop. 2022

Station Place du 8 Mai 1945, 62500 Saint-Omer, France See in map

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