A young black woman in newly independent Senegal accompanies her employers to France to work as a governess. She imagines she will enjoy the comforts of bourgeois French society. …

Black Girl: Directed by Ousmane Sembene. With Mbissine Thérèse Diop, Anne-Marie Jelinek, Momar Nar Sene, Robert Fontaine. A black girl from Senegal becomes a servant in France.

The film begins with a ship arriving in a harbor in southern France carrying Diouana who has been invited by the couple to rejoin them. In Dakar, before Senegalese independence, she worked …

This review of Ousmane Sembène’s most famous film – Black Girl (1966) – utilises recent geographic scholarship on the nature of migration to explore how the protagonist, Diouana, …

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 …

Black Girl is a French-Senegalese film that is historically noted for being the first feature made by a sub-Saharan African director. Originally titled, La noire de…, the tragic film opens a …

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.

A black girl from Senegal becomes a servant in France. A Senegalese woman is eager to find a better life abroad. She takes a job as a governess for a French family, but finds her duties …

In the film Black Girl (1966) written and directed by Ousmane Sembene describes the story of a young African woman Diouana who struggles to work as a servant in France. Critically …

Mbissine Thérèse Diop’s Diouana finds her pleasant babysitting chores for a French family in Dakar topped by an invitation to accompany them back to France; but once there, she finds …

La Noire de…, as it is originally titled, is about Diouana, a young Senegalese girl trying to survive in post-colonial Senegal, but regarding France as her only salvation. Supposedly inspired by a …

Clocking in at around an hour, Black Girl centers around Diouana (MBissine Thérèse Diop), a young African woman living in poverty in Senegal offered the exciting opportunity to move to …

Black Girl tells the story of Diouanne, a young Senegalese woman eager to find a better life and who takes a job as a governess for a bourgeois French family. Mistreated by her employers, …

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. In 1966, Senegalese …

A young Senegalese woman travels from her home to France to work for a French couple.

Shot in a simple, quasi-documentary style probably influenced by the French New Wave, Black Girl tells the tragic story of a young Senegalese woman working as a maid for an affluent …

“Black Girl” is deceptively simple. The whole drama is revealed through the everyday routine of Diouana, a young Senegalese woman, who moves from Dakar, Senegal to Antibes, France to …

Sembène transforms a deceptively simple plot—about a Senegalese woman who moves to France to become the domestic help for a wealthy white family—into a layered critique of the …

A carved, African mask pops up throughout Black Girl, Ousmane Sembene’s 1966 debut film. We first see it hanging on the wall of the apartment of a French couple, where Diouana ( M’Bissine …

Borom Sarret or The Wagoner (French: Le Charretier) is a 1963 film by Senegalese director Ousmane Sembène, the first film over which he had full control.It is often called [1] the first film …