Alice Diop's Oscar nominated film 'Saint Omer' finds nuance in the story of Fabienne Kabou, a woman in France who claimed witchcraft made her kill her baby
“I became fascinated by the story without knowing exactly why,” Diop tells TIME via her translator. Kabou, then 39, madeafter she claimed that in 2013, witchcraft made her travel from Paris to Berck-sur-Mer, France, with her only child Adélaïde, where she breastfed her on the beach, and placed her down as the sea came in. The act claimed Adélaïde’s short life.
who killed her own children Mermerus and Pheres—that she bore through Jason, to enact revenge on him. What she witnessed in the courtroom left Diop wondering how a mother could kill her child.puts a spin on the courtroom drama by centering another woman’s perspective of the trial. Rama is a pregnant young academic and writer who—like Diop did—travels to the northern French town of Saint Omer, to attend the trial of Laurence Coly , a fictionalized version of Kabou.
Diop adds that she used the original transcripts from Kabou’s proceedings to inform the script and says that the courtroom setting of the film forces viewers to learn about a character’s soul through “objective facts,” cementing the mystery of Laurence. A common theme in Diop’s work is the shedding of light on that which has been “invisible” in society, she says, and in, this partly includes the marginalization of Black and migrant women.
It is in this vulnerable state that she meets Luc Dumontet, an older white man separated, but not divorced, from his wife, with a pregnant daughter closer to Laurence’s age. Luc fathers a daughter with Laurence but his neglectful absence means that she gives birth at home and doesn’t register the birth of their daughter, Elise. Like many characters Diop is concerned with, the infant was invisible since birth.
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