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Black Girl
Directed by
Ousmane Sembène
Not Rated
1969
65m
[Drama](/on-demand/category/drama)
7.4
94%
74%
7.2
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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)
Ousmane Sembène
The Teacher (uncredited) / Director / Writer
André Zwobada
Producer
Christian Lacoste
Director Of Photography
André Gaudier
Editor
Black Girl Ratings & Reviews
Bitch Media
Allison N. Conner
Fifty-one years after its initial release, this seminal film remains hauntingly relevant.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
Q Network Film Desk
James Kendrick
suggests powerfully how colonialism and its mindset does not immediately dissipate once a country has achieved independence
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.
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.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
A remarkable personal-is-political drama, set in barely postcolonial Senegal and France.
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.
Village Voice
Melissa Anderson
Formally spartan, Ousmane Sembne's Black Girl is dense with cool fury.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
[An] intimate, straightforwardly realistic drama.
New York Times
A.H. Weiler
Mr. Sembne makes his point neatly and dramatically.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
Sembene keeps his metaphors under control, and the result is a message movie with an unusual depth of characterization.
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.
Slant Magazine
Eric Henderson
Decolonization in Black Girl is not only a myth, but also a myth that actually strengthens the consumerist caste systems.
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