Mati Diop

In the years since, she has assembled a body of work that mixes more commercial projects like M.

Night Shyamalan's Old and the forthcoming Ocean's 11 prequel with standout European dramas like Mia Hansen-Løve's Bergman Island and Mati Diop's Hold Me Tight, the crowd-pleasing period biopic Corsage, and US indies such as Jim Jarmusch's Father Mother Sister Brother.

She can currently be seen in the latest season of Ryan Murphy's true crime show Monster, playing the dual roles of Lizzie Borden's housemaid, Bridget "Maggie" Sullivan, and the Bloody Countess, Elizabeth Báthory.

Krieps is a dream first guest for this new season, as she is a deep thinker, a deep feeler, a person with a unique perspective on the seen and unseen worlds.

There was a 2019 film.

Uh, it's called Atlantiques, or the French, Atlantiques, but directed by Mati Diop, and she's the real deal.

Oh, yeah.

Um, if, if you have not seen that film, and I believe, and Matt, you'll probably know better than me, there was another film she just did a couple-

... that up as well.

And I think anybody who sees or anybody who has seen it, anyone who hasn't, uh, it's a treat.

Again, Mati Diop, Atlantiques, the real deal.

Yes.

And I think the documentary also incorporates those questions with like the student forum that they have.

So just to remind our audiences, Dahomey is a 2024 documentary directed by French filmmaker Mati Diop.

The film follows the historic repatriation of 26 royal treasures from the former kingdom of Dahomey, which is part of roughly 7,000 artifacts that were taken by France during the colonial era, as these artifacts are then returned to the Republic of Benin.

The film departs from a conventional documentary by granting a voice to one of the returned artifacts, which is what you were talking about.