She is a ghost woman, a woman no one sees, and who has committed the worst crime: infanticide. One could think of Medea, this tragic figure of Greek mythology. And besides, it is one of the merits of the film “Saint Omer” to make its main character, a woman born in Dakar and who came to France to pursue brilliant higher education, a universal tragic heroine.
Director Alice Diop was inspired, for her first feature film, by a news item that had moved France in 2013. The story of Fabienne Kabou, who had let the sea take away her 15-month-old baby.
“Saint Omer” features a fictional double, Laurence Coly (played by Guslagie Malanda) whose trial we will follow, notably through the eyes of an author (Kayige Kagame).
On the bill of our cinema also this Saturday, we will leaf through the latest news from the 7th art, and we will go to Khartoum where the Sudanese Film Group association organized a week of screenings of films made in the Horn of Africa (report by our correspondent Eliott Brachet).