Black Girl
aka La noire de...
Screened in July 2013
Director: Ousmane Sembene. Cast: Marie-Thérèse Diop, Anne-Marie Jelinek, Robert Fontaine, Momar Nar Sene, Ibrahima Boy, Raymond Lemeri, Suzanne Lemeri, Bernard Delbard, Nicole Donati. Screenplay: Ousmane Sembene (based on his novel).
Twitter Capsule: Simpler, more rigid than most Sembene but still nuanced on émigré's dreams, class-based racism, and futile reparations.

Photo © 1966 Filmi Domirev/Les Actualités Françaises,
© 1969 New Yorker Films

Not yet reviewed in full. Grade: A–

(in July 2013: B+)


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