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Saint Omer and Sight & Sound

Watching

Saint Omer (2022)

French director Alice Diop won the second-place prize at this year’s Venice Film Festival for Saint Omer, her first narrative film in a short career built on documentaries. This felt to me like a notable parallel to the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, when director-actress Mati Diop (no relation) took the second-place prize for her f…