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Saint Omer
Film / 2022

Saint Omer

Directed by Alice Diop
DramaCrime

★ 6.2/10Audience rating

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.

The story

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.

Cast

Kayije KagameRama Guslagie MalandaLaurence Coly Aurélia PetitMaître Vaudenay Valérie DrévilleLa Présidente Xavier MalyLuc Dumontet Robert CantarellaAvocat général Salimata KamateOdile Diata Thomas De PourqueryAdrien Adama Diallo TambaSeynabou Mariam DiopKhady Dado DiopTening Charlotte ClamensCécile Jobard
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Seyna KaneSeynabou jeune Coumba-Mar ThiamRama adolescente Binta ThiamRama enfant Alain PayenL'éditeur (voice) Louise Lemoine TorrèsMaître Darcourt (voice) Roald Iamonte Christelle Lefait Yann Lehoux

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