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Black girl = La noire de

Call Number

  • DVD FOREIGN (CEN, EAS, OSH, WSQ)

Edition

Two-DVD special edition.

Languages

In French, with English subtitles.

Performers

Mbissine Thérèse Diop, Anne-Marie Jelinck, Robert Fontaine, Momar Nar Sene.

Publication Information

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2017]

Physical Description

2 videodisc (59 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (illustrations ; 19 cm.)

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

A young Senegalese woman 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.

Notes

Title from container.

Based on a novella by Ousmane Sembène.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1966.

Special features: New 4K digital restoration, undertaken by The Film Foundation's World Cinema Project in collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna ; 4K restoration of the short film Borom sarret, director Ousmane Sembène's acclaimed 1963 debut ; new interviews with scholars Manthia Diawara and Samba Gadjigo ; excerpt from a 1966 broadcast of JT de 20h, featuring Sembène discussing his win of the Prix Jean Vigo for Black Girl ; new interview with actor M'Bissine Thérèse Diop ; Sembène: the making of African cinema, a 1994 documentary about the filmmaker by Diawara and Ngugi wa Thiong'o ; alternate color sequence ; trailer ; new English subtitle translation.

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