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La noire de ... = Black girl

Title
La noire de ... = Black girl / directed by Sembène Ousmane.
Publication
[New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2017]

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Additional Authors
  • Sembène, Ousmane, 1923-2007
  • Zwobada, André
  • Lacoste, Christian
  • Gaudier, André
  • Diop, Mbissine Thérèse
  • Jelinck, Anne-Marie
  • Sene, Momar Nar
  • Fontaine, Robert, 1924-1973
  • Sembène, Ousmane, 1923-2007.
  • Films Domirev (Firm), production company
  • Criterion Collection (Firm), film distributor
Description
2 videodiscs (59 min.) : sound, black and white; 4 3/4 in +
Summary
Ousmane Sembène ... made his feature debut in 1966 with the brilliant and stirring Black Girl. Sembène, who was also an acclaimed novelist in his native Senegal, transforms a deceptively simple plot--about a young Senegalese woman who moves to France to work for a wealthy white family and finds that life in their small apartment becomes a prison, both figuratively and literally--into a complexly layered critique of the lingering colonialist mind-set of a supposedly postcolonial world.
Series Statement
The Criterion collection ; 852
Uniform Title
  • Borrom sarret (Motion picture)
  • Sembène (Motion picture)
  • Criterion collection ; 852.
Alternative Title
Black girl
Subject
  • Sembène, Ousmane, 1923-2007 > Film adaptations
  • Immigrants > France > Drama
  • Household employees > Drama
  • Senegalese > France > Drama
  • Women, Black > France > Social conditions > Drama
  • Suicide > Drama
  • Self-esteem > Drama
Genre/Form
  • Feature films.
  • Fiction films.
Note
  • Summary from videodisc container.
  • Source used: videodisc container.
  • Based on the short story by Ousmane Sembène.
  • Originally produced as a motion picture in 1966.
  • Special features on disc one: new 4k digital restoration, undertaken by The Film Foundation's World Cinema Project in collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna; new interview with actor M'Bissine Thérèse Diop; On Black girl: a new interview with filmmaker and cutural theorist Manthia Diawara; alternate color sequence; excerpt from a 1966 broadcast of JT de 20h, featuring Sembène discussing his win of the Prix Jean Vigo for Black Girl; trailer; New English subtitle translation ; on disc two: 4K restoration of the short film Borrom sarret, director Ousmane Sembène's acclaimed 1963 debut; Sembène: the making of African cinema, a 1994 documentary about the filmmaker by Manthia Diawara and Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo; On Ousmane Sembène: a new interview with scholar Samba Godjigo ; in folded insert: essay by critic Ashley Clark.
Credits (note)
  • Screenwriter, Sembène Ousmane ; producer, André Zwoboda ; cinematographer, Christian Lacoste ; editor, André Gaudier.
Performer (note)
  • M'bissine Thérèse Diop, Anne-Maire Jelinck, Momar Nar Sene, Robert Fontaine.
System Details (note)
  • DVD; NTSC; region 1; full screen (1.37:1 aspect ratio); Dolby Digital monaural.
Language (note)
  • In French and Wolof with optional subtitles in English.
Contents
A lovely country -- Shattered expectations -- Lunch guests -- Looking for work -- Hired -- A present -- The children -- Like an animal -- Confined -- Disobedience -- The letter -- Dreams and realities -- Taking control -- Ending the lies -- Eyes on the boss -- Color bars.
Call Number
Sc Visual DVD-1918
ISBN
  • 9781681432489
  • 168143248X
LCCN
715515192019
OCLC
965801374
Title
La noire de ... = Black girl / directed by Sembène Ousmane.
Publisher
[New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2017]
Edition
DVD edition.
Country of Producing Entity
Senegal ; France naf
Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
Type of Medium
video
Type of Carrier
videodisc
Series
The Criterion collection ; 852
Criterion collection ; 852.
System Details
DVD; NTSC; region 1; full screen (1.37:1 aspect ratio); Dolby Digital monaural.
Cast
M'bissine Thérèse Diop, Anne-Maire Jelinck, Momar Nar Sene, Robert Fontaine.
Credits
Screenwriter, Sembène Ousmane ; producer, André Zwoboda ; cinematographer, Christian Lacoste ; editor, André Gaudier.
Language
In French and Wolof with optional subtitles in English.
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Added Author
Sembène, Ousmane, 1923-2007, film director.
Zwobada, André, film producer.
Lacoste, Christian, cinematographer.
Gaudier, André, film editor.
Diop, Mbissine Thérèse, actor.
Jelinck, Anne-Marie, actor.
Sene, Momar Nar, actor.
Fontaine, Robert, 1924-1973, actor.
Motion picture adapation of (work): Sembène, Ousmane, 1923-2007. Noire de.
Films Domirev (Firm), production company.
Criterion Collection (Firm), film distributor.
Added Title
Container of (work): Borrom sarret (Motion picture)
Container of (work): Sembène (Motion picture)
Other Standard Identifier
715515192019
Publisher No.
CC2721D The Criterion Collection
CC2721DDVD The Criterion Collection
Research Call Number
Sc Visual DVD-1918
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