Black Girl (La Noire de...)

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Directed by

Ousmane Sembene

Starring

Mbissine Thérèse Diop
Diouana

Robert Fontaine
Monsieur

Sophie
Couple's Daughter

Toto Bissainthe
Diouana

Sophie Leclair
Madame

Ousmane Sembene
The Teacher

Written by

Ousmane Sembene
based on a novella by

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6 years, 5 months ago at Nov 17 16:48

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Ousmane Sembène’s first feature film is a searing indictment of the stain of colonialism, of how it continues to infect us in ways both crystal clear and subterranean. Black Girl is a brief but powerful debut feature film, and a modern classic worth discovering. Sembène’s political fury is Spartan here. It manifests an entire country’s identity crisis in a singular story and position... read more

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(MU) Touching, ironic, tragic in the end, poetic in the narration in off, maybe too hard on the french woman (the man is 'pardoned') personalizing her injustice instead of depicting a general problem of identity...

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Description: Ousmane Sembène was one of the greatest and most groundbreaking filmmakers who ever lived, as well as the most renowned African director of the twentieth century—and yet his name still deserves to be better known in the rest of the world. He made his feature debut in 1966 with the brilliant and stirring Black Girl. Sembène, who was also an acclaimed novelist in his native Senegal, transforms a deceptively simple plot—about a young Senegalese woman who moves to France to work for a wealthy white family and finds that life in their small apartment becomes a prison, both figuratively and literally—into a complexly layered c ... (more)

Release date: 17 March 1966

Tags: France (2), Senegal (2), Drama (2), 1960s (1), Raiplay (1), Streaming (1), 64 Min. (1), Servitude - Servant (1), Minimal Cast (1), Senegalese (1), HQ (1), S (1), 1966 (1), Based On True Story (1), African (1), Abuse (1), 60's (1), Africa (1), Bw (1), Black & White (1)

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