6.8
In Her Name
2016
Saint Omer (2022)
November 23, 20222h 3mFR
6.2
203 votes
Overview
A novelist attends the trial of a woman accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter by abandoning her to the rising tide on a beach in northern France. But as the trial continues, her own family history, doubts, and fears about motherhood are steadily dislodged as the life story of the accused is gradually revealed.
Director
Alice DiopWriters
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Status
Released
Original Language
French
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Revenue
$823K
Production Companies
Srab FilmsPictanovoARTE France Cinéma
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User Reviews
CinemaSerf
7.0I generally like the style of French courtroom dramas. They lack the stuffy formality of the more typical judicial scenarios and are generally much more combative. This one isn’t so much about the crime, but more about our appreciation and perhaps forgiveness of it’s causes. Senegalese arrival in France “Laurence” (Gustalgie Malanda) is on trial for a murder we know she committed. She took her newborn baby and left it on the beach at high tide whereupon it duly drowned. She’s perfectly open about that but claims that she was the victim of sorcery, perhaps emanating from the spirits in her home…
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