BLACK GIRL by Ousmane Sembène

129 Convent Avenue at West 135th Street,New York NY 10031

29 September, 2022

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BLACK GIRL (Senegal/France), Ousmane Sembène Senegal, 1966 "Ousmane Sembène, one of the greatest and most groundbreaking filmmakers who ever lived and the most internationally renowned African director of the twentieth century,made his feature debut in 1966 with the brilliant and stirring Black Girl (La noire de . . .). " "A complex, layered critique on the lingering colonialist mindset 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."