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MYSTERIOUS: Alice diop - What They Never Told You

TV tonight: how Serena Williams nearly became a punk guitarist

The tennis champion tells her own incredible life story. Plus: Uma Thurman’s far-fetched transatlantic thriller. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Film-maker warns against ‘rampant racism’ in France as election approaches

Alice Diop, one of France’s top documentary and feature directors, is aiming to mobilise voters on housing estates against the far right

The Guardian - UK

‘Beyond judgment’: courtroom drama subverted by new wave of French film

Arthouse directors leave questions unanswered and play on perspective to explore faultlines in society

The Guardian - UK

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Best films of 2023 in the UK: No 7 – Saint Omer

Alice Diop’s award-winning courtroom drama doubles as an unsentimental study in empathy with one of the year’s most mesmerising performances

The Guardian - UK

Anatomy of a Fall review – electric Palme d’Or-winning courtroom thriller

A tantalising screenplay keeps the audience guessing in Justine Triet’s gripping French drama in which superb lead actor Sandra Hüller plays a woman suspected of her husband’s murder

The Guardian - UK

Saint Omer uses a real-life child murder trial to sensitively explore the migrant experience and mother-daughter dynamics

Senegalese-French documentarian Alice Diop's debut narrative feature film is a thoughtful and complex examination of a bizarre, tragic case that caused a sensation across France.

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New this week: Jonas Brothers, Muppets, Bennifer and 'Air'

This week’s new entertainment releases include an album from Jonas Brothers, Nintendo releasing a fresh Legend of Zelda video game and PBS’ “Great Performances” celebrating 50 years of Broadway with a starry concert

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Our pick of 9 of the best female-directed films to watch on International Women’s Day

Why not take part in IWD by watching an incredible film?

Evening Standard

Our pick of the 12 best court room dramas on film, from Oscar-nominated Anatomy of a Fall to Saint Omer

From John Grisham adaptations, to black-and-white classics, we select the court room classics

Evening Standard

Saint Omer movie review: of course Oscar voters ignored it, it’s a masterpiece about black women

Director Alice Diop’s fantastically viseral film dissects the rules of a game that’s always been rigged

Evening Standard

Saint Omer review – Alice Diop’s compelling courtroom drama

The French director draws on her own experience in this story of a writer sitting in on the trial of a woman accused of murdering her own baby

The Guardian - UK

Saint Omer review – witchcraft and baby killing in extraordinary real-life courtroom drama

Alice Diop’s unnerving fiction feature is based on the true case of a Senegalese immigrant accused in the French court of murdering her 15-month-old daughter

The Guardian - UK

Saint Omer director Alice Diop: ‘I make films from the margins because that’s my territory, my history’

Raised in a Paris banlieue, the documentary-maker is now in the spotlight thanks to her Venice prize-winning first feature, based on the true story of a woman accused of killing her baby

The Guardian - UK

‘Saint Omer’ review: A real-life murder trial becomes a singularly moving courtroom drama

“Saint Omer,” one of 2022′s near-perfect films, marks the narrative feature debut of the French documentary filmmaker Alice Diop. Set mostly in the northeastern French town of the title, it concerns a Paris professor following a murder trial there as primary research for her next book. That book, whose working…

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Los Angeles Times

Review: No, movies are not empathy machines — and the brilliant 'Saint Omer' shows why

Roger Ebert once famously likened the movies to "a machine that generates empathy." It's a formulation I've never fully been able to swallow, for reasons that have less to do with Ebert's specific insight than with its reductive, ad-nauseam recycling by other critics and moviegoers.

The Orange County Register

French director Alice Diop’s ‘Saint Omer’ explores a mother’s unspeakable act

French filmmaker Alice Diop at first didn’t understand why she felt so drawn to the true-life story of a French woman of Senegalese origin on trial for the drowning death of her daughter.

Salon

"Saint Omer" and dark maternity taboos

Director Alice Diop's acclaimed film about a woman on trial for killing her child is France's Oscar entry

Evening Standard

The biggest films coming in 2023 from Margot Robbie’s Barbie to Timothée Chalamet as Willy Wonka

RIP your suntan, 2023’s looking like a year to spend in a darkened room watching this brilliant crop of forthcoming movies

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Los Angeles Times

Oscars 2023: 10 women directors deserving attention

Shortly after the Golden Globes nominations were announced earlier this month, the advocacy group Women in Film took to social media, decrying the "shocking" omission of critically acclaimed female directors, citing Sarah Polley ("Women Talking"), Gina Prince-Bythewood ("The Woman King"), Chinonye Chukwu ("Till") and Maria Schrader ("She Said").

The Guardian - US

Best movies of 2022 in the US: No 10 – Saint Omer

Alice Diop’s award-winning courtroom drama doubles as an unsentimental study in empathy with one of the year’s most mesmerising performances

Radio France Internationale

Alice Diop triumphs at the Venice Film Festival

This week on The Sound Kitchen you’ll hear the answer to the question about Alice Diop. There’s The Sound Kitchen mailbag, the bonus question and the “Listeners Corner” with Michael Fitzpatrick, and plenty of good music. All that, and the new quiz question, too, so click on the “Audio” arrow…

The Guardian - UK

London film festival 2022: Peter Bradshaw’s top 12 picks

A new Sam Mendes drama, Noah Baumbach adapts Don DeLillo and an amazing debut by Charlotte Wells: the Guardian’s chief film critic chooses his must-sees

Radio France Internationale

French director receives two awards for debut film at Venice festival

French filmmaker Alice Diop won the Grand Jury Prize and the First Film Award for her drama, "Saint Omer", at the 79th Venice Film Festival awards ceremony on Saturday.

The Guardian - UK

We (Nous) review – a tender homage to the unnoticed

French-Senegalese film-maker Alice Diop offers a sensitive portrayal of the disparate communities that live along one of Paris’s commuter rail lines

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