Black Girl stars Mbissine Thérèse Diop as Diouana, a young Senegalese woman who moves from Dakar, Senegal to Antibes, France to work for a French couple. In France, Diouana hopes to …

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.

Black Girl explores the struggles of a young Senegalese woman working for a white bourgeois French family. The relationship between the maid and French couple serves as microcosm for …

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 …

Sembène depicts the suffocating repression that occurs in relationships that are defined by cultural domination by exhibiting the alienation and exploitation that a Senegalese woman, …

Black Girl is a 1966 French-Senegalese drama film, written and directed by Ousmane Sembène in his directorial debut. It is based on a short story from Sembène's 1962 collection Voltaique, …

In Ousmane Sembene‘s Black Girl, a woman named Diouana (Mbissine Thérèse Diop) works as a governess for a French family with whom she traveled from Senegal to the south of France. …

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 …

Black Girl stars Mbissine Thérèse Diop as Diouana, a young Senegalese woman who moves from Dakar, Senegal to Antibes, France to work for a French couple. In France, Diouana hopes to …

In his watershed feature debut BLACK GIRL, master director Ousmane Sembène offers a searing critique of colonialism’s legacy via the story of Diouana, a young Senegalese woman whose …

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 …

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, …

“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, 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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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

Saturday, September 16, 3:15 p.m. | With the brilliant BLACK GIRL, Sembène transforms a deceptively simple plot—about a Senegalese woman who moves to France to work for a …

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 …