La noire de ... = Black girl /
"Ousmane Sembène ... 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 fin...
| Uniform Title: | Noire de... (Motion picture : 1966) |
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| Other Authors: | , , , , , |
| Format: | Video Blu-ray Disc |
| Language: | French Wolof |
| Language Notes: | In French and Wolof with optional subtitles in English. |
| Published: |
[New York, New York] :
The Criterion Collection,
[2017]
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| Edition: | Blu-ray special edition. |
| Series: | Criterion collection ;
852. |
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| Summary: | "Ousmane Sembène ... 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 critique of the lingering colonialist mind-set of a supposedly postcolonial world"--Container. |
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| Item Description: | Title from title frame. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1966. Based on the short story by Ousmane Sembène. 1.37:1 aspect ratio. Special features: new 4k digital restoration, undertaken by The Film Foundation's World Cinema Project in collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna; new interview with actor M'Bissine Thérèse Diop; On Black girl: a new interview with filmmaker and cutural theorist Manthia Diawara; alternate color sequence; excerpt from a 1966 broadcast of JT de 20h, featuring Sembène discussing his win of the Prix Jean Vigo for Black Girl; trailer; New English subtitle translation; 4K restoration of the short film Borom sarret, director Ousmane Sembène's acclaimed 1963 debut; Sembène: the making of African cinema, a 1994 documentary about the filmmaker by Manthia Diawara and Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo; On Ousmane Sembène: a new interview with scholar Samba Godjigo ; in folded insert: essay by critic Ashley Clark. |
| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (59 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in + 1 booklet. |
| Format: | Blu-ray, region A fullscreen (1.37:1 aspect ratio); uncompressed monaural. |
| Awards: | Best African Feature, Festival of Black Arts 1966 ; Grand Prize, Carthage Film Festival 1966 |
| Production Credits: | Producer, André Zwoboda ; director of photography, Christian Lacoste; editor, André Gaudier. |
| ISBN: | 9781681432472 1681432471 |