Alice Diop awarded two prizes at the Venice Film Festival: "We will no longer be silent"
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- 21 Sep 2022
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Senegalese-born director Alice Diop was known for her award-winning documentaries. This year, she is making a sensational entry into the world of fiction. In competition at the Venice Film Festival, Saint Omer, her first fiction film, won the Silver Lion and the First Film Prize. "I no longer have the words," said the filmmaker, very moved, receiving her award and highlighting her feminist fight, in particular that of "women of color": "silence will not protect us. We will no longer be silent,” she promised. Saint Omer is inspired by a true story. In 2013, fishermen found the lifeless body of little Adelaide, 15 months old. Very quickly, his mother, a young Senegalese woman, was arrested. And the trial for infanticide starts in June 2016. "Saint-Omer explores the great universal question of our relationship to motherhood." The director confided, during the festival, to having used "a news item of sordid appearance to go and question something much larger, which is the relationship that all women and all men have with motherhood". Laurence Coly, the protagonist of the film, played by Guslagie Malanda, is a Senegalese immigrant accused of having killed her 15-month-old baby by abandoning her on a beach in the North of France, at the rising tide. The film focuses on the trial which Alice Diop attended. “I was obsessed with this story from the start (…) I was really very upset, flabbergasted, crossed by a lot of quite intimate things about my relationship with motherhood”, she confided. “The director confided, during the festival, to have used “a news item of sordid appearance to go and question something much larger, which is the relationship that all women and all men have with motherhood”. Laurence Coly, the protagonist of the film, played by Guslagie Malanda, is a Senegalese immigrant accused of having killed her 15-month-old baby by abandoning her on a beach in the North of France, at the rising tide. The film focuses on the trial which Alice Diop attended. “I was obsessed with this story from the start (…) I was really very upset, flabbergasted, crossed by a lot of quite intimate things about my relationship with motherhood”, she confided. “The director confided, during the festival, to have used “a news item of sordid appearance to go and question something much larger, which is the relationship that all women and all men have with motherhood”. Laurence Coly, the protagonist of the film, played by Guslagie Malanda, is a Senegalese immigrant accused of having killed her 15-month-old baby by abandoning her on a beach in the North of France, at the rising tide. The film focuses on the trial which Alice Diop attended. “I was obsessed with this story from the start (…) I was really very upset, flabbergasted, crossed by a lot of quite intimate things about my relationship with motherhood”, she confided. having used "a news item of sordid appearance to go and question something much larger, which is the relationship that all women and all men have with motherhood".
Laurence Coly, the protagonist of the film, played by Guslagie Malanda, is a Senegalese immigrant accused of having killed her 15-month-old baby by abandoning her on a beach in the North of France, at the rising tide. The film focuses on the trial which Alice Diop attended. Read More…
