Black girl La noire de..
DVD - 2017
A young Senegalese woman moves to France to work for a wealthy white couple and finds that life in their small apartment becomes a prison, both figuratively and literally, into a complexly layered critique of the lingering colonialist mindset of a supposedly postcolonial world.
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Fiction films
Feature films
Film adaptations
Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Published
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[Irvington, New York] :
The Criterion Collection
[2017]
- Language
- French
Wolof
English - Corporate Authors
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- Edition
- Two-DVD special edition ; DVD edition ; full screen
- Item Description
- Based on the novella by Ousmane Sembène.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1966.
1.37:1 aspect ratio.
Special features: excerpt from a 1966 broadcast of JT 20h, featuring Sembène accepting the Prix Jean Vigo for Black Girl; new interview with actor M'Bissine Thérèse Diop; trailer; essay by critic Ashley Clark. - Physical Description
- 2 videodiscs (59 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
- Format
- DVD.
- Awards
- Best African Feature, Festival of Black Arts 1966 ; Grand Prize, Carthage Film Festival 1966.
- Production Credits
- Photography, Christian Lacoste ; editor, Andre Gaudier.
- ISBN
- 9781681432489
Contents unavailable.
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