The Venice Film Festival presents in competition the first fiction feature by a French director of Senegalese origin, Alice Diop. Saint Omer returns to a news item that had upset public opinion in 2015: a young Senegalese woman had killed her fifteen-month-old daughter by abandoning her at the rising tide on a beach in northern France.
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Cinema: director Alice Diop’s frontal look at a case of infanticide
