| Description |
1 videodisc (approximately 123 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
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widescreen rda |
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video file rdaft |
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DVD video |
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| System Details |
DVD, wide screen. |
| Language |
French dialogue; English subtitles. |
| Note |
Title from container. |
| Cast |
Kayije Kagame, Guslagie Malanda, Valerie Dreville, Aurélia Petit. |
| Credits |
Director, Alice Diop. |
| Summary |
Bringing a documentarian's sense of open-ended inquiry to her first narrative feature, writer-director Alice Diop constructs a morally and emotionally layered courtroom drama unlike any other. When she travels to Saint-Omer, France, to attend the trial of a young Senegalese woman accused of murdering her infant daughter, novelist Rama finds herself shaken to the core by a case that proves to have profound resonances with her own life. Interweaving complex themes of mother-daughter bonds, immigrant alienation, and postcolonial trauma into a piercing portrait of two mysteriously connected women, Diop forgoes mere questions of guilt and innocence to plumb the unsettling unknowability of the human soul. |
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Murder -- Investigation -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Senegalese -- France -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Saint-Omer (Pas-de-Calais, France) -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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| Genre |
Feature films.
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Fiction films.
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Legal films.
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Drama.
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DVD-video discs.
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| Added Author |
Diop, Alice, 1979- film director, screenwriter.
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David, Amrita, screenwriter.
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NDiaye, Marie, screenwriter.
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Malanda, Guslagie, actor.
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Dréville, Valérie, actor.
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Petit, Aurélia, actor.
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Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
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| ISBN |
9798886071214 |
| Standard No. |
715515293815 |
| Music No. |
CC3536DDVD The Criterion Collection |
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