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Black Girl

Cast

Mbissine Th�r�se Diop, Anne-Marie Jelinek, Robert Fontaine, Momar Nar Sene View All

Crew

Ousmane Semb�ne (Director), Ousmane Semb�ne (Writer) View All

Release: Jan. 1st, 1966

Runtime: 1 hour, 5 minutes

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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Takoma11
And even as she thinks this, the couple begins to pen a letter as if they were Diouana, putting their own words on the page and simply cueing Diouana to speak up if she wants to change the wording.

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Thief
One of the best ways that Sembne highlights this is through an African mask that is passed as a gift from Diouana to her employers, but ends up becoming an important point of contention in the plot and an important symbolism for the themes of the film.