
Saint Omer
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Synopsis
Follows Rama, a novelist who attends the trial of Laurence Coly at the Saint-Omer Criminal Court to use her story to write a modern-day adaptation of the ancient myth of Medea, but things don't go as expected.
Cast
- Kayije Kagame
- Guslagie Malanda
- Valérie Dréville
- Aurélia Petit
- Xavier Maly
- Robert Cantarella
- Salimata Kamate
- Thomas de Pourquery
- Adama Diallo Tamba
- Mariam Diop
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Metacritic
Feb 17, 2023
The film mounts its thesis while hardly needing to verbalise what’s going on: it mesmerises by reaching inside them to listen, even while others talk.

Tim Robey
The Telegraph
Jan 12, 2023
It reveals its most haunting truths to us slowly even as it seems to lay all its cards on the table early on. In doing so, it confronts us with deeper truths we would otherwise ignore.
Chase Hutchinson
Collider
Jan 12, 2023
Throughout this dry, dull and bloodless movie, nothing like an honest grappling with the depravity of killing one’s own infant ever seems to occupy anyone’s attention.

Kyle Smith
Wall Street Journal
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