The film, shortlisted by the Academy Awards for consideration as best international feature, stars Guslagie Malanda in a story inspired by a real-life trial in France.
French filmmaker Alice Diop at first didn’t understand why she felt so drawn to the true-life story of a French woman of Senegalese origin on trial for the drowning death of her daughter.
The French media had focused on the sensational aspects of the case – Kabou, a brilliant doctoral student, said she’d been compelled to kill her daughter by “witchcraft.” Diop, who attended the trial, wanted to dig deeper into what made her able to commit such a terrible act. Guslagie Malanda, who joined Diop on the video call, plays Laurence Coly, the mother on trial on “Saint Omer.” Kayije Kagame plays Rama, a teacher and novelist drawn to the courtroom to watch the trial every day, much like Diop herself had done.
Something happened with this text and the interpretation of Mary Lou because I understand maybe something regarding that loneliness of Laurence Coly. It was the first door to work on the film. Also, one of the main rules Alice gave me, it’s you have to be straight in your body and to speak really clearly, but without anything that we can call a performance – not to perform, not to act. So yeah, it was intense, and during the shooting, because of that work with Alice, we found the attitude of the character.
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