Saint Omer (2022)

PG-1311/23/2022Drama, Crime2h 3m
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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.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Kayije Kagame

    Rama

  2. Cast 1

    Guslagie Malanda

    Laurence Coly

  3. Cast 1

    Aurélia Petit

    Maître Vaudenay

  4. Cast 1

    Valérie Dréville

    La Présidente

  5. Cast 1

    Xavier Maly

    Luc Dumontet

  6. Cast 1

    Robert Cantarella

    Avocat général

  7. Cast 1

    Salimata Kamate

    Odile Diata

  8. Cast 1

    Thomas De Pourquery

    Adrien

  9. Adama Diallo Tamba

    Seynabou

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 isn’t so much about the crime, but more about our appreciation and perhaps forgiveness of it’s 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. She’s perfectly open about that but claims that she was the victim of sorcery, perhaps emanating from the spirits in her home...

Status Released

Original LanguageFrench 

Budget-

Revenue $823,074.00

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