Black Girl /
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 stir...
| Uniform Title: | Noire de... (Motion picture : 1966) |
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| Other Authors: | , , , , , |
| Format: | Video |
| Language: | Wolof |
| Language Notes: | In French. |
| Published: |
[San Francisco, California, USA] :
The Criterion Collection,
1966.
Kanopy Streaming, 2021. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Kanopy) |
| Summary: | 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 critique of the lingering colonialist mind-set of a supposedly postcolonial world. Featuring a moving central performance by M'Bissine Thérèse Diop, BLACK GIRL is a harrowing human drama as well as a radical political statement-and one of the essential films of the 1960s. |
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| Item Description: | Title from title frames. Film. Based on the short story by Ousmane Sembène. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1966. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (streaming video file) (60 minutes): .flv file, sound |
| Production Credits: | Producer, André Zwoboda ; director of photography, Christian Lacoste ; editor, André Gaudier. |