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Saint Omer director Alice Diop: ‘I make films from the margins because that’s my territory, my history’

Raised in a Paris banlieue, the documentary-maker is now in the spotlight thanks to her Venice prize-winning first feature, based on the true story of a woman accused of killing her baby

The Guardian - UK · Jan 29, 2023

Review: No, movies are not empathy machines — and the brilliant 'Saint Omer' shows why

Roger Ebert once famously likened the movies to "a machine that generates empathy." It's a formulation I've never fully been able to swallow, for reasons that have less to do with Ebert's specific insight than with its reductive, ad-nauseam recycling by other critics and moviegoers.

Los Angeles Times · Jan 13, 2023

Venice film festival 2022 week two roundup – discomfort and joy

A mood of theatricality prevailed at this year’s edition – a bleak but furiously cinematic Marilyn Monroe biopic and a forbiddingly austere French courtroom drama being the most distinctive offerings

The Guardian - UK · Sep 10, 2022