Sight and Sound: the Saint Omer Issue

In this issue: Alice Diop in conversation with Claire Denis, Cate Blanchett and Todd Field on Tár and Laura Poitras on All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

Plus: the Best Films of 2022, our annual In Memoriam feature, Paul Mescal and Charlotte Wells on Aftersun, and much more…

Alice Diop’s debut fiction feature Saint Omer, a deceptively straightforward courtroom drama based on a real-life case of filicide, “raises questions about migration, postcolonialism and parenthood and is a film that we feel more than understand”, as Catherine Wheatley writes in our cover feature,

In a wide-ranging discussion moderated by Wheatley, Diop is joined by her friend and mentor Claire Denis; they consider their enduring friendship, the difference between documentary and fiction and the nuances of plagiarism and influence.

Elsewhere in a packed issue, we hear from Cate Blanchett about her bravura performance as Lydia Tár and Laura Poitras on her sublime documentary portrait of Nan Goldin, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, while Charlotte Wells and Paul Mescal reflect on the whirlwind success of Aftersun. 

Plus all the great regular features.