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Title:
Black girl = La Noire de...
Added Title:
Borrom sarret.

Sembène.
Series Number:
852.
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.
General Note:
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.
Edition:
DVD edition.

Two-DVD special edition.
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.
Physical Description:
2 videodiscs (59 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in + 1 insert.
Geographic Term:
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Publication Date:
2017

1966
ISBN:
9781681432489
Publication Information:
[New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2017]

©2017.
Award Note:
Best African Feature, Festival of Black Arts 1966 ; Grand Prize, Carthage Film Festival 1966
Call Number:
DVD BLACKGI
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