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Black Girl

1966 · 65 min

A quiet, suffocating descent into alienation, told with stark simplicity and mounting despair.

Directed by
Ousmane Sembène
Genres
Drama
Starring
Mbissine Thérèse Diop, Anne-Marie Jelinek, Robert Fontaine
Overview
Eager to find a better life abroad, a Senegalese woman becomes a mere governess to a family in southern France, suffering from discrimination and marginalization.

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Directed by
Ousmane Sembène
Genres
Drama
Starring
Mbissine Thérèse Diop, Anne-Marie Jelinek, Robert Fontaine
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Tone
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • isolation
  • race
  • class
  • power
  • identity
Places
  • big city
  • single country house
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror2
Humour1
Realism9
Romance2
Tension6
Darkness8
Complexity6
Emotional weight9

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Genres
drama
Directed by
Ousmane Sembène
Written by
Ousmane Sembène
Starring
Mbissine Thérèse Diop, Anne-Marie Jelinek, Robert Fontaine, Nar Sene, Ibrahima Boy, Bernard Delbard, Nicole Donati, Raymond Lemeri
Cinematography
Christian Lacoste
Runtime
65 min
Country
France, Senegal
Languages
French, Wolof

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