#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

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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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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“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

Recensie Saint Omer ★★★★ - vanaf 31-1 te zien op @IFFR en vanaf 9-3 in de bioscoop Een gelaagd en krachtig rechtbankdrama, waarbij men de verbeeldingskracht van de kijker aanspreekt. De kijker is sowieso ook jurylid! #IFFR

De dramafilm Saint Omer gaat over Rama, die een proces bijwoont over een vrouw die haar baby vermoordde. Daar komen heel wat emoties bij kijken. Wat wij van Saint Omer vinden, lees je in onze recensie. (more…) “”

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"Saint Omer"

SAINT OMER: The film's stoic demeanor often feels too unhurried, but this sophisticated, gripping courtroom drama fully and forcefully asserts its social critique.

This film was screened at the Toronto International Film Festival Directed by documentarian Alice Diop, “Saint Omer” has a dry, observational style that gives her project a non-fiction feel. She falls back on classic documentary techniques in her filmmaking, including a tendency to let her camera linger on her actors for extended periods of time and allowing characters to appear as though they…

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If Joshua Picked the Oscars

Best Picture of The Year : Tár

For notable

Direction: Todd Field

Writing: Todd Field

Performance(s): Cate Blanchett, Nina Hoss, & Noémie Merlant

Cinematography: Florian Hoffmeister

Editing: Monika Willi

Best Director

WINNER: Moneyboys by C. B. Yi

RUNNERS-UP:

Charlotte Wells for Aftersun

Kristoffer Borgli for Sick of Myself

Jerzy Skolimowski for EO 

Luca Guadagnino for Bones and All

Best Actor

WINNER: Eden Dambrine in Close

RUNNER UPs

Colin Farrell in After Yang

Cosmo Jarvis in It Is In Us All

Kai Ko in Moneyboys

Paul Mescal in Aftersun

Best Actress

WINNER: Kristine Thorpe in Sick of Myself

RUNNERS-UP

Kayije Kagame in Saint Omer

Guslagie Malanda in Saint Omer

Françoise Lebrun in Vortex

Mia Goth in Pearl

Best Original Screenplay

WINNER: Charlotte Wells for Aftersun

RUNNERS-UP:

Kristoffer Borgli for Sick of Myself

Saul Williams for Neptune Frost

C.B. Yi for Moneyboys

Laura Paredes & Laura Citarella for Trenque Lauquen

Best Adapted Screenplay

WINNER: David Kajganich for Bones and All

RUNNERS-UP:

Jerzy Skolimowski and Ewa Piaskowska for EO

Andrew Litvack, Léa Mysius, and Claire Denis for Stars at Noon

Kogonada for After Yang

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

Best Score

WINNER: Athena by Benoit Heitz (GENER8ION)

Best Song of 2022 (Featured in a Movie) 

WINNER: Stars at Noon by Tindersticks

Best Editing of 2022

WINNER: After Yang (dir. Kogonada)

RUNNER UPS

Bret Morgen for Moonage Daydream

Blair McClendon for Aftersun

Paul Rogers for Everything Everywhere All At Once

Agnieszka Glińska for EO

Best Cinematography of 2022

WINNER (TIE): Athena (by Matias Boucard) and EO (by Michal Dymek)

RUNNERS-UP:

Joyland (by Joe Saade)

Moneyboys (by Jean-Louis Uialard)

Close  (By Frank van den Eeden)

Neptune Frost (by Anisia Uzeyman)

Best Sound of 2022

WINNER: Kyle Edward Ball for Skinamarink 

Best Short Live Action Film

WINNER: Tremor by Rudolf Fitzgerald-Leonard

RUNNER UP: Starfuckers by Antonio Marziale

Best Short Documentary Film 

WINNER: Will You Look At Me? by Huang Shuli

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

WINNER: Justin H. Min (in After Yang)

RUNNERS-UP:

Bai Yufan (in Moneyboys)

Sami Slimane (in Athena) 

Gustav De Waele (in Close)

Pablo Schils in Tori & Lokita

Best Actress in a Supporting Role 

WINNER: Alina Khan (in Joyland) 

RUNNERS-UP:

Hong Chau (in The Whale)

Charlbi Dean Kriek (in Triangle of Sadness)

Dolly De Leon (in Triangle of Sadness)

Stephanie Hsu in Everything Everywhere All At Once

Best Documentary of The Year

WINNER: Moonage Daydream

RUNNERS-UP

All The Beauty and the Bloodshed

The Fire Within

Best Costume and Production Design

WINNER: Neptune Frost

Best Horror Film

WINNER: Terrifier 2

RUNNERS-UP

Skinamarink

Pearl

You Won’t Be Alone

The Outwaters