Criterion Collection

Ousmane Sembène was one of the greatest and most groundbreaking filmmakers who ever lived, as well as the most renowned African director of the twentieth century and yet his name still deserves to be better known in the rest of the world. He 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. Featuring a moving central performance by MBissine Thérèse Diop, Black Girl is a harrowing human drama as well as a radical political statement and one of the essential films of the 1960s.

Black Girl was restored by the Cineteca di Bologna/LImmagine Ritrovata laboratory, in association with the Sembène Estate; INA, Institut National de lAudiovisuel; Éclair; and the Centre National de Cinématographie. Restoration funded by The Film Foundations World Cinema Project.

Borom sarret was restored in 2013 by the Cineteca di Bologna/LImmagine Ritrovata laboratory and Éclair, in association with The Film Foundations World Cinema Project; INA, Institut National de lAudiovisuel; and the Sembène Estate. Restoration funded by Doha Film Institute.

Från IMDB:
A black girl from Senegal becomes a servant in France.

Version: : Blu-Ray (import)

Språk : French

Färg : Black & White

EAN : 5050629005431

Label : Criterion Col