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Saint Omer Has Secured Alice Diop’s Place as One of France’s Best Filmmakers
Alice Diop made her name making subversive documentaries about multicultural working-class France. Her latest film, Saint Omer, fictionalizes a trial that led to a national scandal: a Senegalese-born woman who claimed witchcraft led her to murder her child.