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Black girl = La noire de ..
Title
Black girl = La noire de ... / Filmi Domirev, Dakar présente ; écrit et réalisé par Sembène Ousmane.
ISBN
9781681432489
168143248X
Edition
DVD edition.
Two-DVD special edition.
Publication
[New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2017]
Copyright Notice Date
©2017.
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (59 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in + 1 insert.
Medium
4 3/4 in. stamping
Notes
Based on the short story by Ousmane Sembène.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1966.
Special features on disc one: new 4k digital restoration, undertaken by The Film Foundation's World Cinema Project in collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna; new interview with actor M'Bissine Thérèse Diop; On Black girl: a new interview with filmmaker and cutural theorist Manthia Diawara; alternate color sequence; excerpt from a 1966 broadcast of JT de 20h, featuring Sembène discussing his win of the Prix Jean Vigo for Black Girl; trailer; New English subtitle translation ; on disc two: 4K restoration of the short film Borrom sarret, director Ousmane Sembène's acclaimed 1963 debut; Sembène: the making of African cinema, a 1994 documentary about the filmmaker by Manthia Diawara and Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo; On Ousmane Sembène: a new interview with scholar Samba Godjigo ; in folded insert: essay by critic Ashley Clark.
Producer, André Zwoboda ; director of photography, Christian Lacoste; editor, André Gaudier.
In French and Wolof with optional subtitles in English.
Best African Feature, Festival of Black Arts 1966 ; Grand Prize, Carthage Film Festival 1966
Summary
"Ousmane Sembène ... 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"--Container.
Variant and related titles
La noire de ...
Container title: Black girl
Borrom sarret (Motion picture)
Sembène (Motion picture)
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
French; Wolof
Added to Catalog
March 15, 2018
Series
The Criterion collection ; 852
Credits
Producer, André Zwoboda ; director of photography, Christian Lacoste; editor, André Gaudier.
Cast
M'bissine Thérèse Diop, Anne-Maire Jelinck, Momar Nar Sene, Robert Fontaine.
System details note
DVD; NTSC; region 1; full screen (1.37:1 aspect ratio); Dolby Digital monaural.
Contents
A lovely country
Shattered expectations
Lunch guests
Looking for work
Hired
A present
The children
Like an animal
Confined
Disobedience
The letter
Dreams and realities
Taking control
Ending the lies
Eyes on the boss
Color bars.
Videorecording number
CC2721D The Criterion Collection
CC2721DDVD The Criterion Collection
Subjects
Genre/Form
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Feature films - France.
Feature films - Senagal.
Foreign language films - French.
Foreign language films - Wolof.
Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Film adaptations.
Also listed under
Films Domirev (Firm), presenter, production company.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
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