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Saint Omer 2022
"Je sais pas."
It's a line uttered at least ten times during the criminal trial at the centre of Alice Diop's debut (!) feature. To me, it suggests many things: a retort, a lament, or perhaps something to simply fill an expectant pause. But often, it seems like a genuine response offered by Laurence Coly - the Senegalese-French woman standing trial for murdering her infant daughter - that visibly flummoxes the judge (an incredible Valérie Dréville) and no doubt the…
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All We Imagine as Light 2024
Sense-making & Sensibility.
Before we're introduced to our heroines, voices we'll never encounter again share their negotiations of Mumbai: It heals, and helps one forget. It robs you of time. It offers you no security, even if yours were the hands that helped build it. You now require formal papers to prove your residency, even if the agreements that forged your home were dependable, verbal testimonies. Rallies steeped in nationalism straddle religious and neoliberal iconographies. Billboards depicting light-skinned families inhabiting glass…
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