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Co-written and directed by Alice Diop, this drama is based on the 2016 French court case involving Fabienne Kabou. The film unfolds through the eyes of Rama (Kayije Kagame), a pregnant novelist who attends the trial of Laurence Coly (Guslagie Malanga). The accused is being tried for the murder of her own baby, whom she left on a beach to be taken by the tide. Rama hopes to adapt her story as a retelling of Medea. But as the hearings unfold, she starts to question many things about the realities she shares with Laurence; the Senegalese immigrant experience, societal pressures, and motherhood.
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Saint Omer (2022)
123 min
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.