Alice Diop’s acclaimed 2022 drama “Saint Omer'' draws inspiration from the 2016 court case in which Kabou was tried for the murder of her young daughter. Drawing from her experience attending Kabou’s ...

The job of the judge and jury in Saint Omer, the small city in northern France where the trial takes place, is to figure out why Laurence killed Elise and to pass sentence on her. To put it in ...