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A remarkable personal-is-political drama, set in barely postcolonial Senegal and France. Jul 28, 2016 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
A remarkable personal-is-political drama, set in barely postcolonial Senegal and France.
Moira MacDonald
Black Girl radiates with an expressive tone, despite some script compression and the typical production obstacles of a mid-60s independent film. May 18, 2016 | Full Review…
Black Girl radiates with an expressive tone, despite some script compression and the typical production obstacles of a mid-60s independent film.
Jordan Hoffman
Formally spartan, Ousmane Sembène's Black Girl is dense with cool fury. May 17, 2016 | Full Review…
Formally spartan, Ousmane Sembène's Black Girl is dense with cool fury.
Melissa Anderson
[An] intimate, straightforwardly realistic drama. Sep 28, 2015 | Full Review…
[An] intimate, straightforwardly realistic drama.
Richard Brody
Mr. Sembène makes his point neatly and dramatically. Oct 22, 2007 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Mr. Sembène makes his point neatly and dramatically.
A.H. Weiler
Sembene keeps his metaphors under control, and the result is a message movie with an unusual depth of characterization. Oct 22, 2007 | Full Review…
Sembene keeps his metaphors under control, and the result is a message movie with an unusual depth of characterization.
Dave Kehr
Sembene imbues objects with significance, not only on a symbolic level, but in a way so profound that they seem to carry supernatural power. Mar 20, 2017 | Full Review…
Sembene imbues objects with significance, not only on a symbolic level, but in a way so profound that they seem to carry supernatural power.
Benjamin Wang
suggests powerfully how colonialism and its mindset does not immediately dissipate once a country has achieved independence Jan 31, 2017 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
suggests powerfully how colonialism and its mindset does not immediately dissipate once a country has achieved independence
James Kendrick
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. Jan 25, 2017 | Full Review…
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.
Witney Seibold
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. Jan 19, 2017 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
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.
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Historical importance aside, it's startling how elementally lyrical, how starkly political, the watchful, heightened naturalism of this essential masterpiece is. Jul 25, 2016 | Full Review…
Historical importance aside, it's startling how elementally lyrical, how starkly political, the watchful, heightened naturalism of this essential masterpiece is.
Ray Pride
Paints a broad story of oppression that's specific in its details. May 18, 2016 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Paints a broad story of oppression that's specific in its details.
Matt Prigge
[font=Century Gothic]"Black Girl" is an incisive allegory from Ousmane Sembene about the relationship between France and Senegal, made shortly after Senegal's gaining its independence. Diouana(Mbissine Therese Diop), like many others in Dakar, is unemployed and looking for work. Luckily enough, she finds work as a nursery maid for a French couple(Anne-Marie Jelinek & Robert Fontaine) who have three young children. At the beginning of her employment, Diouana brings them a native mask as a gift. When they move back to France, they bring along Diouana but they mislead her as to what her responsibilities will be, leaving her to feel exploited and trapped inside an apartment all day long as she is separated both from the vibrant France she imagines and the support system she left behind in Senegal. To add to this, she suffers the condescension and lack of respect from the other French people she encounters as she serves them at the dinner table.[/font]
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