Saint Omer (2022)

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Wikidata Q113443388, film, IMDb tt15376894, TMDB 925943: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only film by that title.

What a model would be handed about it, for corpus:ask.

Who talked about it

The Big Picture

Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

No line says it drew on another film or person.

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

No line says another film or person drew on it.

Connected to

Happening: 2 lines verdict ×2

  1. verdict (ranking): Happening → Saint Omer. Amanda places Happening at four as a clear-eyed thriller structured week by week; Adam later places Saint Omer, another French film, at two.
    “it almost like becomes a thriller of her trying to get the abortion and it goes like week by week”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:52:03 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)

Fred Wiseman: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (style comparison): Saint Omer → Fred Wiseman. Adam compares the film's endless naturalistic courtroom testimony to a Fred Wiseman or Raymond Depardon movie.
    “it's very much like a Fred Wiseman movie, except, or a Raymond Deppardon movie, except real.”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:09:33 · Adam Nayman (0.85 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

craft (1)

  1. craft (style comparison): Saint Omer → Fred Wiseman. Adam compares the film's endless naturalistic courtroom testimony to a Fred Wiseman or Raymond Depardon movie.
    “it's very much like a Fred Wiseman movie, except, or a Raymond Deppardon movie, except real.”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:09:33 · Adam Nayman (0.85 sure it was them)

verdict (2)

  1. verdict (ranking): Happening → Saint Omer. Amanda places Happening at four as a clear-eyed thriller structured week by week; Adam later places Saint Omer, another French film, at two.
    “it almost like becomes a thriller of her trying to get the abortion and it goes like week by week”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:52:03 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (ranking): Saint Omer → Happening. Adam notes Saint Omer was France's Oscar submission over Happening, and says France did not make a bad call.
    “So with all with all respect to happening, which is a really good movie.”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:09:02 · Adam Nayman (0.80 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about Saint Omer: Adam describes it as a rigorous courtroom film that plays games with identification while never nudging, pushing, underlining or italicizing.
    “it doesn't underline, it doesn't italicize.”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:10:57 · Adam Nayman (0.85 sure it was them)

Who the speakers said made it

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