Saint Omer

  • Drama
  • Crime
11/23/2022
123
PG-13

Storyline

A novelist attends the trial of a woman accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter by abandoning her to the rising tide on a beach in northern France. But as the trial continues, her own family history, doubts, and fears about motherhood are steadily dislodged as the life story of the accused is gradually revealed.

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      • Geronimo1967

        I generally like the style of French courtroom dramas. They lack the stuffy formality of the more typical judicial scenarios and are generally much more combative. This one isnt so much about the crime, but more about our appreciation and perhaps forgiveness of its causes. Senegalese arrival in France Laurence (Gustalgie Malanda) is on trial for a murder we know she committed. She took her newborn baby and left it on the beach at high tide whereupon it duly drowned. Shes perfectly open about that but claims that she was the victim of sorcery, perhaps emanating from the spirits in her homeland, and that she had little memory or consciousness of the deed. This case is being observed by a writer, Rama (Kayije Kagame), who is also having issues...

        July 4, 2025

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