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 is just the beginning of Sembène's anti-colonialist films.
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Spectrum Culture
Rating: 3/5 --
Mr. Sembène makes his point neatly and dramatically.
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New York Times
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
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Whatever its faults, Black Girl takes us into the heart of a world that may be strange and unfamiliar to those who watch it today.
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ReelViews
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
[An] intimate, straightforwardly realistic drama.
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New Yorker
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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- Sales Rank: 60,199
- UPC: 715515192019
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