But as she listens to Laurence’s story, she begins to see the web of experience and feeling that connects her with her subject. Rama’s plan is to gather material for an updated retelling of Medea.

Rama (Kayije Kagame), a professor and novelist, travels from Paris to the town of Saint-Omer to attend the trial of a woman named Laurence Coly (Guslagie Malanda), accused of an unthinkable crime that she doesn’t deny. From that story, Diop has extracted a picture that’s both poetic and compassionately direct. Origins: In recent years Japan has produced some rather unusual fashion items that have been objects of fascination throughout the western world, such as the infamous 'breast scarves' that were given wide coverage by English-language news outlets (although the scarves were actually just part of an artistic exhibition and not a widely-sold consumer product):īut what about the alleged 'current rage in Japan' depicted above, skirts supposedly displaying screened-on images of panties which create the illusion of 'see-through' clothing (thereby fulfilling the fantasy of all the disappointed boys who were ever duped into ordering X-Ray Specs through comic book ads)? Even if such a product did exist, pictures like the ones shown above would have to be very carefully posed in order to get the screened-on panties to line up perfectly with the actual positioning of the skirt-wearers' derrieres and legs.Īlas, these images were simply digital fabrications to which someone attached a fanciful explanation.French documentary filmmaker Alice Diop’s first fiction feature is based on a real-life French court case involving a Senegalese immigrant who left her 15-month-old daughter on a beach to die.

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