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Black Girl
Directed by
Ousmane Sembène
1966
60m
Not Rated
Drama
7.4
94%
76%
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A black girl from Senegal becomes a servant in France.
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Cast of Black Girl
Mbissine Thérèse Diop
Diouana
Anne-Marie Jelinek
Madame
Robert Fontaine
Monsieur
Nar Sene
Diouana's Boyfriend
Ibrahima Boy
Boy with Mask
Bernard Delbard
Young Male Guest
Nicole Donati
Young Female Guest
Raymond Lemeri
Old Male Guest
Suzanne Lemeri
Old Female Guest
Philippe
Couple's Oldest Son
Sophie
Couple's Daughter
Damien
Couple's Youngest Son
Toto Bissainthe
Diouana (voice)
Robert Marcy
Monsieur (voice)
Sophie Leclair
Madame (voice)
Ousmane Sembène
The Teacher (uncredited)
Black Girl Reviews
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
A remarkable personal-is-political drama, set in barely postcolonial Senegal and France.
New York Times
A.H. Weiler
Mr. Sembne makes his point neatly and dramatically.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The weakness of Black Girl is in its slow, journeyman style; one feels that Sembene learned filmmaking by making this film.
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Whatever its faults, Black Girl takes us into the heart of a world that may be strange and unfamiliar to those who watch it today.
From the Front Row
Mattie Lucas
Sembene forcefully reclaims that African identity by tearing away the mask, both figuratively and literally (in the film's haunting final shot).
Q Network Film Desk
James Kendrick
suggests powerfully how colonialism and its mindset does not immediately dissipate once a country has achieved independence
IONCINEMA.com
Nicholas Bell
Sembene's portrait of a young Senegalese woman whose dreams are swiftly crushed by the cruelty of white privilege is as emotionally potent today as it was five decades ago.
Slant Magazine
Eric Henderson
Decolonization in Black Girl is not only a myth, but also a myth that actually strengthens the consumerist caste systems.
Bitch Media
Allison N. Conner
Fifty-one years after its initial release, this seminal film remains hauntingly relevant.
Village Voice
Melissa Anderson
Formally spartan, Ousmane Sembne's Black Girl is dense with cool fury.
New Yorker
Richard Brody
[An] intimate, straightforwardly realistic drama.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
Sembene keeps his metaphors under control, and the result is a message movie with an unusual depth of characterization.
NPR's Fresh Air
John Powers
Sembene's debut feels as timely today as it did half a century ago... As Westerners, we begin the movie thinking we're watching Africans, but we realize that Africans like Sembene have been watching us, too, and know us far better than we know them.
Los Angeles Free Press
Lloyd Steele
[Director Ousmane] Sembene may well have the talent to be a major filmmaker.
Spectrum Culture
David Harris
Black Girl is just the beginning of Sembène's anti-colonialist films.
Film Inquiry
Benjamin Wang
Sembene imbues objects with significance, not only on a symbolic level, but in a way so profound that they seem to carry supernatural power.
Newcity
Ray Pride
Historical importance aside, it's startling how elementally lyrical, how starkly political, the watchful, heightened naturalism of this essential masterpiece is.
Metro
Matt Prigge
Paints a broad story of oppression that's specific in its details.
Common Sense Media
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Running only 65 minutes the movie is compact, but extremely potent; Sembene's simple camera setups articulate great poetry. It's a movie of dashed hopes and unexpected beauties, and it's a masterpiece.
CraveOnline
Witney Seibold
Black Girl - often called the first important African feature film - can be interpreted as a mere penetrating personal drama, but it's impossible to look at this film apolitically.
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