Black Girl [1966 film]
by Ousmane Sembène (Director)
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"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 show more world"--Container. show lessTags
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Eager to find a better life abroad, a Senegalese woman becomes a mere governess to a family in southern France, suffering from discrimination and marginalization. (source: tmdb)
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- Black Girl [1966 film]
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- Le noir de …
- Original publication date
- 1966-03-17
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- Black Girl (1966 | IMDb)
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- English, French, Italian
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