DVD
4 of 4 Copies Available
- CENTRAL: Audiovisual Collection
- EASTWOOD: Audiovisual Collection
- OSHTEMO: Audiovisual Collection
- WASHINGTON SQUARE: Audiovisual Collection
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.