Black Girl (La noire de...) (NR)
synopsis
Ousmane Sembe?ne, one of the greatest and most groundbreaking filmmakers who ever lived as well as the most internationally renowned African director of the twentieth century, made his feature debut in 1966 with the brilliant and stirring BlackGirl (La noire de . . .). Sembe?ne, 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 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 mind-set of a supposedly postcolonial world. Featuring a moving central performance by Mbissine The?re?se Diop, Black Girl is a harrowing human drama as well as a radical political statement-and one of the essential films of the 1960s.
details
Drama
1 hr. 5 min.
Opened May 18th, 2016
MovieGoer Review
Black Girl is the feature debut of acclaimed African author-turned-filmmaker Ousmane Sembene. Clocking in at roughly an hour in length, the movie suffers from a number of what might be considered "teething" flaws: uneven pacing, wooden acti... MORE
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synopsis
Ousmane Sembe?ne, one of the greatest and most groundbreaking filmmakers who ever lived as well as the most internationally renowned African director of the twentieth century, made his feature debut in 1966 with the brilliant and stirring BlackGirl (La noire de . . .). Sembe?ne, 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 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 mind-set of a supposedly postcolonial world. Featuring a moving central performance by Mbissine The?re?se Diop, Black Girl is a harrowing human drama as well as a radical political statement-and one of the essential films of the 1960s.
details
Drama
1 hr. 5 min.
Opened May 18th, 2016
MovieGoer Review
Black Girl is the feature debut of acclaimed African author-turned-filmmaker Ousmane Sembene. Clocking in at roughly an hour in length, the movie suffers from a number of what might be considered "teething" flaws: uneven pacing, wooden acti... MORE
