| Edition |
Special edition. |
| Description |
2 videodisc (59 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. |
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digital optical monaural rda |
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video file DVD video rda |
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Motion picture. |
| Series |
The Criterion collection ; 852 |
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Criterion collection
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| System Details |
DVD. |
| Note |
Title from sell sheet. |
| Cast |
M'bissine Therese Diop. |
| Note |
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1966. |
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1.37:1 aspect ratio. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Note |
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. |
| Language |
French or Wolof dialogue; English subtitles. |
| Subject |
Household employees.
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Suicide.
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Self-esteem.
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Senegalese -- France -- Drama.
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Immigrants -- France -- Drama.
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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.
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Diop, Mbissine Thérèse, actor.
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Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
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| Added Title |
Container of (expression): Black girl (motion picture). Wolof.
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| ISBN |
9781681432489 |
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168143248X |
| Standard No. |
715515192019 |
| Music No. |
CC2721DDVD The Criterion Collection |
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