Stunningly acted by Guslagie Malanda and Kayije Kagame, Alice Diop's quietly spellbinding courtroom drama will represent France in the Oscar race for best international feature.
Laurence’s strange powers of near-invisibility, as incarnated by an astonishing newcomer named Guslagie Malanda, are very much to the movie’s point. Written and directed by Alice Diop, a French documentarian making a stunner of a narrative debut, “Saint Omer” probes the mysteries of the seen and the unseen.
But this supremely intelligent and haunting movie, a major prizewinner at last year’s Venice International Film Festival andfor best international feature, is very much an attempt to reckon with her and with actions often branded with the cliché of “unthinkable.” As Laurence testifies, she speaks of her time in France as one of gradual, systemic and comprehensive abandonment: by her estranged parents, who saw her only in terms of her academic potential; by her lover, Luc Dumontet , who kept her and their baby hidden from his own wife and family; and by a society indifferent to the most vulnerable individuals in its midst.
The echoes go deeper: As we’ve seen from the early establishing scenes, Rama is expecting a child with her white partner, Adrien . And Rama also bears the wound of a difficult mother-daughter relationship, one that has instilled in her an ambivalence and anxiety about her own impending motherhood.
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