Saint Omer

“I also just saw Saint Omer. It's a French courtroom drama take on the Medea myth, but also can I say, between this and Anatomy of a Fall, what's going on in the French court system? This is not a joke. I would really love for like someone who knows the French legal system to hit me up on Twitter. It seems a lot more like a family therapy session than a legal structure in both films.”

“St. Omer. I’m going to take it.”

“Saint Omer, Alice Diop. Golly! This makes you think hard and deep about parenting, motherhood, all kinds of fields. Truly, truly, truly a masterpiece, a courtroom drama. Masterpiece, masterpiece. You got to see it.”

“I’m also going to take Saint Omer here, from Alice Diop. This was one of my favorite movies of the last several years. It’s just a beautiful, concise, powerful, emotional, heart-wrenching, and very, very aesthetically sophisticated film, from a filmmaker who has made many documentaries that I also love. But this is a very, very strong narrative and I’m taking it.”

“Alice Diop’s Saint Omer, one of the great new, exciting filmmakers on this planet. Anytime she does anything, I’m excited for it. This is another underappreciated classic, which I guess is the theme here. So watch this movie. But also watch anything that Alice does because exciting voice period. She’s got a lot to say about the world and we all should listen.”