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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.
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Item Description: | 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 (12 min.) ; On Black Girl: a new interview with filmmaker and cultural theorist Manthia Diawara (22 min.) ; 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 Borom Sarret (20 min.), director Ousmane Sembène's acclaimed 1963 debut ; Sembène: the making of African cinema (61 min.), a 1994 documentary about the filmmaker by Manthia Diawara and Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo; On Ousmane Sembène: a new interview with scholar Samba Godjigo (20 min.) ; in folded insert: essay by critic Ashley Clark. |
Physical Description: | 2 videodiscs (59 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in + 1 foldout (6 pages) |
Format: | DVD; NTSC; region 1; full screen (1.37:1 aspect ratio); Dolby Digital monaural. |
Awards: | Best African Feature, Festival of Black Arts 1966 ; Grand Prize, Carthage Film Festival 1966 |
Production Credits: | Producer, André Zwoboda ; director of photography, Christian Lacoste ; editor, André Gaudier. |
ISBN: | 9781681432489 168143248X |
Participant or Performer: | M'bissine Thérèse Diop, Anne-Maire Jelinck, Momar Nar Sene, Robert Fontaine. |
Language: | In French and Wolof with optional subtitles in English. |