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Since the late 2010s, L’Avant-Scène has highlighted diversity on the French stages through its annual festival, its course about race in French theater, and recent productions. We are thrilled to bring Alice Diop to Princeton and open with her the week-long celebrations of L’Avant-Scène's anniversary. Join us for a screening of Saint Omer (2022), followed by a Q&A (in French) with Filmmaker Alice Diop, in collaboration with Princeton French Film Festival.
Rama, a literature professor and novelist, travels from Paris to Saint-Omer to observe the trial of Laurence Coly and write about the case. Coly is a student and Senegalese immigrant accused of leaving her 15-month-old daughter on a beach to be swept away by the tide in Berck. Rama, who is four months pregnant and, like Coly, is in a mixed-race relationship and has a complex relationship with her own Senegalese immigrant mother, feels a personal connection to Coly. She plans to write a modern-day retelling of the Greek Medea myth about the case.
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Princeton French Film Festival, Department of French and Italian, and Center of Excellence
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