#saint-omer

[postcard-from-the-past]

18th-century mill near Saint-Omer, Artois region of northern France

French vintage postcard

[philoursmars]

Douai (Nord), le Musée de la Chartreuse. Une visite pour la Nuit des Musées.

crosse, Saint Michel combattant le Dragon - Limoges, XIIIe s.

pion d'échec, l'attaque d'un fort, ivoire - Angleterre, 1250

terrine, dindon - Saint-Omer, XVIIIe s.

pot à tabac de Saint-Domingue - p-ê France, fin XVIIIe s.

statuettes : Afrique, Amérique, Asie - Saint-Amand, 1780

paire de salerons, chiens assis - Saint-Amand, XVIIIe s.

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[radioshiga]

Incêndio destrói igreja histórica no norte da França

Saint-Omer, Pas-de-Calais, França, 3 de setembro de 2024 – Agência France-Presse – Um grande incêndio atingiu a histórica Igreja da Imaculada Conceição na cidade de Saint-Omer, no norte da França, na madrugada desta segunda-feira (2). O fogo, que começou por volta das 4h30 da manhã, resultou no colapso da torre do sino do templo. Cerca de 90 bombeiros foram mobilizados para combater as chamas,…

[postcard-from-the-past]

100 years ago:

Saint Omer Alice Diop. 2022

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

See in imdb

[vaevictis2]

[filmgifs]

Saint Omer (2022) dir. Alice Diop

[maggiecheungs]

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

SAINT OMER (2022) dir. Alice Diop

[theworldofwars]

Members of the Chinese Labour Corps watching a driver attending to her ambulance's engine. Saint-Omer, 28 February 1918.

[sundaynightfilms]

Saint Omer, 2022

[generallynaive]

Os Melhores de 2023 - 25 Filmes

1. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed Laura Poitras

2. Aftersun Charlotte Wells

3. Perfect Days Wim Wenders

4. Mal Viver & Viver Mal João Canijo

5. Retratos Fantasmas Kléber Mendonça Filho

6. Roter Himmel Christian Petzold

7. Cerrar los Ojos Víctor Erice

8. Saint Omer Alice Diop

9. No Bears Jafar Panahi

10. Tár Todd Field

11. May December Todd Haynes

12. Killers of the Flower Moon Martin Scorsese

13. Passages Ira Sachs

14. How to Blow Up a Pipeline Daniel Goldhaber

15. EO Jerzy Skolimowski

16. Retour à Seoul Davy Chou

17. Tori et Lokita Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne

18. Showing Up Kelly Reichardt

19. Asteroid City Wes Anderson

20. Não Sou Nada Edgar Pêra

21. Under the Fig Trees Erige Sehiri

22. Syk Pike Kristoffer Borgli

23. Oppenheimer Christopher Nolan

24. Great Yarmouth - Provisional Figures Marco Martins

25. The Killer David Fincher

[se7enpixels]

Anatomy of a Fall (2023)

[sesiondemadrugada]

Saint Omer (Alice Diop, 2022).

[forhandsthatsuffer]

Saint Omer (2022), dir. Alice Diop

[filmap]

Saint Omer Alice Diop. 2022

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

See in imdb

[theinsatiables]

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.

[maggiecheungs]

Members of the jury, this is the story of a phantom woman. Of a slow disappearance. A tragic descent into hell.

Guslagie Malanga as Laurence Coly in SAINT OMER (2022) dir. Alice Diop