Reminder: Black Life Presents Saint Omer on Sunday June 25
Join us in the theater at 4:30pm for the screening of Alice Diop's stellar film.
Hello friends and readers,
We hope you can join us this Sunday afternoon at 4:30pm for a screening of Saint Omer, Alice Diop’s 2022 film starring Kayije Kagame and Guslagie Malanda. The film is Diop’s first venture into narrative after more than a decade of documentary filmmaking and it follows a young novelist, Rama (Kagame), who is observing the trial of Laurence Coly (Malanda), a woman accused of murdering her fifteen-month-old child in northern France. Based on a real-life 2016 trial in the French town the film borrows its title from, Diop’s haunting retelling is nuanced and charged with provocations about motherhood, immigration, and abandonment.
It’s a small film in some ways—the locations are few, the dialogue isn’t dense or extravagant but somehow by the end, it is a giant film that envelops you. Here’s a trailer for those of you who like a preview.
As always, we reserve a set amount of free tickets that we joyfully offer to Black Life’s extended community of Black and brown filmmakers, artists, creators, and curious viewers. We encourage you to send a request for a ticket with your full name to blackblacklifelife@gmail.com by the afternoon of Friday June 23.