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Title
Black Girl.
Published
The Criterion Collection, 1966.
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2021.
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2021.
Language
Wolof
Language Note
In French
Description
1 online resource (streaming video file) (60 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Distributor No.
11913163 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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Title from title frames.
Film
In Process Record.
Anne-Marie Jelinek, M'Bissine Thérèse Diop, Robert Fontaine
Film
In Process Record.
Anne-Marie Jelinek, M'Bissine Thérèse Diop, Robert Fontaine
Time and Place of Event
Originally produced by The Criterion Collection in 1966.
System Details Note
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Digital File Characteristics
video file MPEG-4 Flash
Added Author
Sembene, Ousmane, film director.
Jelinek, Anne-Marie, actor.
Thérèse Diop, M'Bissine, actor.
Fontaine, Robert, actor.
Jelinek, Anne-Marie, actor.
Thérèse Diop, M'Bissine, actor.
Fontaine, Robert, actor.
Added Corporate Author
The Criterion Collection (Firm),
Kanopy (Firm),
Kanopy (Firm),
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