| Edition |
Blu-ray special edition. |
| Description |
1 videodisc (59 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in + 1 booklet. |
| Physical Medium |
4 3/4 in. rda |
| Description |
digital optical monaural LPCM rda |
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video file Blu-ray region A rda |
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Motion picture. |
| Series |
The Criterion collection ; 852 |
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Criterion collection ; 852.
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| System Details |
Blu-ray, region A fullscreen (1.37:1 aspect ratio); uncompressed monaural. |
| Cast |
M'bissine Thérèse Diop, Anne-Maire Jelinck, Momar Nar Sene, Robert Fontaine. |
| Credits |
Producer, André Zwoboda ; director of photography, Christian Lacoste; editor, André Gaudier. |
| Note |
Title from title frame. |
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Originally produced as a motion picture in 1966. |
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Based on the short story by Ousmane Sembène. |
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1.37:1 aspect ratio. |
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Special features: 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; 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. |
| 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. |
| Awards |
Best African Feature, Festival of Black Arts 1966 ; Grand Prize, Carthage Film Festival 1966 |
| Language |
In French and Wolof with optional subtitles in English. |
| Subject |
Household employees -- Drama.
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Suicide -- Drama.
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Self-esteem -- Drama.
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Senegalese -- France -- Drama.
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Immigrants -- France -- Drama.
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Women, Black -- France -- Social conditions -- Drama.
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Women, Black -- Social conditions.
(OCoLC)fst01178934
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Household employees. (OCoLC)fst01730010
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Immigrants. (OCoLC)fst00967712
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Self-esteem. (OCoLC)fst01111662
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Senegalese. (OCoLC)fst01112478
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Suicide. (OCoLC)fst01137578
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France. (OCoLC)fst01204289
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| Genre/Form |
Feature films.
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Fiction films.
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Drama. (OCoLC)fst01423879
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Feature films. (OCoLC)fst01710384
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Fiction films. (OCoLC)fst01710264
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| Added Author |
Sembène, Ousmane, 1923-2007, film director, screenwriter.
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Zwobada, André, film producer.
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Lacoste, Christian, director of photography.
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Gaudier, André, editor of moving image work.
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Diop, Mbissine Thérèse, actor.
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Jelinck, Anne-Marie, actor.
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Sene, Momar Nar, actor.
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Fontaine, Robert, 1924-1973, actor.
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Motion picture adapation of (work): Sembène, Ousmane, 1923-2007.
La noire de--
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Films Domirev (Firm), presenter, production company.
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Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
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| Note |
Container title: Black girl |
| Added Title |
Container of (work): Borrom sarret (Motion picture)
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Container of (work): Sembène (Motion picture)
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| ISBN |
9781681432472 |
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1681432471 |
| Standard No. |
715515191913 |
| Music No. |
CC2720BD The Criterion Collection |
