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Series
Criterion collection volume 852
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Full screen two-dvd special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (59 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in + 1 insert.
Language
Français
Description
"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...
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
In La noire de ..., Senegalese maid goes to the Riviera with her employers and gains a new perspective on what it means to be African outside of Africa. A story of exile and despair.
Borom Sarret follows a cart driver as he meets an unfortunate array of people in Dakar..
Series
Criterion collection volume 852
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (59 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in + 1 booklet.
Language
Français
Description
"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...
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