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

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: CC2721D | The Criterion CollectionCC2721DDVD | The Criterion CollectionLanguage: French, Wolof Original language: French, Wolof Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 852.Publisher: [New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Edition: DVD edition; Two-DVD special editionDescription: 2 videodiscs (59 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in + 1 insertContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 9781681432489
  • 168143248X
Other title:
  • Container title: Black girl
Related works:
  • Motion picture adapation of (work): Sembène, Ousmane, 1923-2007. Noire de
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
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.
Production credits:
  • Producer, André Zwoboda ; director of photography, Christian Lacoste ; editor, André Gaudier.
Awards:
  • Best African Feature, Festival of Black Arts 1966 ; Grand Prize, Carthage Film Festival 1966
Cast: M'bissine Thérèse Diop, Anne-Maire Jelinck, Momar Nar Sene, Robert Fontaine.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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Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult DVD Adult DVD Main Library DVD WORLD BLACK GI Available 33111009900644
Total holds: 1

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The first major work of Senegalese director Ousmane Sembene, this 1966 film is widely recognized as one of the founding works of African cinema. Diouanne Therese N'Bissine Diop, a young Senegalese woman, is employed as a governess for a French family in the city of Dakar. She soon becomes disillusioned when the family travels to the Riviera, where her comfortable duties as a nanny in a wealthy household are replaced by the drudgery and indignities of a maid. In a series of escalating confrontations with her mistress (Anne-Marie Jelinek), Diouanne is painfully reminded of her racial identity. She is caught in the tension between the French upper-class and post-colonial West Africa and finds herself alienated from both worlds. Along with narration and dialogue in French, this film also shares the sparse tone and visual style of French cinema of its period. Nevertheless, the influence of Sembene's European counterparts does not diminish this subtle but striking examination of racial and cultural prejudice. ~ Jonathan E. Laxamana, Rovi

DVD; NTSC; region 1; full screen (1.37:1 aspect ratio); Dolby Digital monaural.

In French and Wolof with optional subtitles in English.

M'bissine Thérèse Diop, Anne-Maire Jelinck, Momar Nar Sene, Robert Fontaine.

Producer, André Zwoboda ; director of photography, Christian Lacoste ; editor, André Gaudier.

Based on the short story by Ousmane Sembène.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1966.

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.

"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.

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.

Best African Feature, Festival of Black Arts 1966 ; Grand Prize, Carthage Film Festival 1966

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