Saint Omer – 7

A simply shot, mesmerizing courtroom drama, semi-opaque as a drama but evocative of ideas. Of maternity, of personal responsibility, of colonialism, of man and woman, of race, more of race, of journalistic objectivity. From our viewpoint, it is also curious to observe and try to understand the French criminal justice system (with six seasons of Spiral as our background). We never quite understand the two Black women at the story’s center, the writer and the defendant who murdered her child. It is not our place to understand them. But they are unforgettable.