Black Girl
She's got to cut it... or cut out.
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Run Time: 59 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 24, 2017
- Originally Released: 1966
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Mbissine Thérèse Diop | |
Directed by | Ousmane Sembene | |
Screenwriting by | Ousmane Sembene |
Entertainment Reviews:
Black Girl radiates with an expressive tone, despite some script compression and the typical production obstacles of a mid-60s independent film.
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Guardian
Rating: 4/4 --
A remarkable personal-is-political drama, set in barely postcolonial Senegal and France.
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Seattle Times
Rating: 3.5/4 --
suggests powerfully how colonialism and its mindset does not immediately dissipate once a country has achieved independence
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Q Network Film Desk
Black Girl - often called the first important African feature film - can be interpreted as a mere penetrating personal drama, but it's impossible to look at this film apolitically.
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CraveOnline
Formally spartan, Ousmane Sembène's Black Girl is dense with cool fury.
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Village Voice
[An] intimate, straightforwardly realistic drama.
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New Yorker
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Sembene forcefully reclaims that African identity by tearing away the mask, both figuratively and literally (in the film's haunting final shot).
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Product Description:
Fans rocked by the subject matter of 2004's MOOLAADE will be delighted to discover that this earlier effort from director Ousmane Sembene touches on similarly controversial subject matter. A low budget effort from 1966, Sembene's film is a tautly wound drama that follows a woman from his native Senegal as she finds work with a white French family in the Senegalese city of Dakar. Despite hiring her for other purposes, she finds herself relegated to the position of a lowly maid when she agrees to follow the family to their native France; her life heads into a downward spiral as she feels alienated and cruelly alone in her adopted country. Sembene deftly illustrates the appalling racism and lack of respect afforded to African citizens in Europe during this era, concocting a deeply affecting movie in the process.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 60,131
- UPC: 715515192019
- Shipping Weight: 0.26/lbs (approx)
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