Black Girl/bd

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Black Girl/bd

Ousmane Sembene (Xala, Faat Kine) was one of the greatest and most groundbreaking filmmakers who ever lived, as well as the most internationally renowned African director of the twentieth century but his name 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. Sembene, 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 post-colonial world. Featuring a moving central performance by M'Bissine Therese Diop, Black Girl is a harrowing human drama as well as a radical political statement and one of the essential films of the 1960s.

DISC FEATURES:

New 4K digital restoration, undertaken by The Film Foundations World Cinema Project in collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
4K restoration of the short film Borom sarret, director Ousmane Sembènes acclaimed 1963 debut
New interviews with scholars Manthia Diawara and Samba Gadjigo
Excerpt from a 1966 broadcast of JT de 20h, featuring Sembène accepting the Prix Jean Vigo for Black Girl
New interview with actor MBissine Thérèse Diop
Sembène: The Making of African Cinema, a 1994 documentary about the filmmaker by Diawara and Ngugi wa Thiongo
Alternate color sequence
Trailer
New English subtitle translation

DETAILS:

Language: French
Subtitles: English
Number of discs: 1
Run Time: 59 minutes
Special Edition Blu-ray

PLUS: An essay by critic Ashley Clark

Media	Movies Blu-ray (Blu-ray Disc)
Number of discs	1
Released	January 24, 2017
EAN/UPC	0715515191913
Label	CRITERION COLLECTION CCIN2720BR
Genre	Drama
Dimensions	133 × 169 × 14 mm · 99 g
Region code	Region 1 (Canada og USA)
Language	Original language
Subtitles	English