La noire de ... = Black girl

La noire de ... = Black girl / Janus Films ; World Cinema Project ; Filmi Domirev, Dakar présente ; écrit et réalisé par Sembène Ousmane.

"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 f...

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Corporate Authors: Janus Films, World Cinema Project
Other Authors: Sembène, Ousmane, 1923-2007 (Screenwriter), Lacoste, Christian (director of photography.), Diop, Mbissine Thérèse (Actor), Jelinck, Anne-Marie (Actor), Sene, Momar Nar (Actor), Fontaine, Robert, 1924-1973 (Actor), Clark, Ashley
Format: Video DVD
Language:French
Wolof
English
Published: [New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2017]
Edition:DVD edition.
Series:Criterion collection ; 852.
Subjects:
Sembène, Ousmane, > 1923-2007 > Film adaptations.
Sembène, Ousmane, > 1923-2007
Immigrants > France > Drama.
Household employees > France > Drama.
Senegalese > France > Drama.
Women, Black > France > Social conditions > Drama.
Suicide > Drama.
Self-esteem > Drama.
Foreign films.
Motion pictures, French.
Women, Black > Social conditions.
Household employees.
Immigrants.
Self-esteem.
Senegalese.
Suicide.
Videos > Dinand
Videos > Dinand > French
France.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Domestic drama (Motion pictures)
Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Film adaptations.
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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.
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.

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