Black Girl
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.
- 7.3
- 1966
- Released
- 1h 5m
Mbissine Thérèse Diop
Diouana
Anne-Marie Jelinek
MadameRobert Fontaine
Monsieur
Nar Sene
Diouana's BoyfriendIbrahima Boy
Boy with MaskBernard Delbard
Young Male GuestNicole Donati
Young Female GuestRaymond Lemeri
Old Male GuestSuzanne Lemeri
Old Female GuestPhilippe
Couple's Oldest SonSophie
Couple's DaughterDamien
Couple's Youngest SonToto Bissainthe
Diouana (voice)Robert Marcy
Monsieur (voice)Sophie Leclair
Madame (voice)
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Released
fr
- #immigrant
- #suicide
- #work
- #france
- #homesickness
- #servant
- #southern france
- #exploitation
- #senegal
- #french riviera
- #loneliness
- #racism
- #black and white
- #maid
- #employer employee relationship
- #antibes
- #discrimination
- #black maid
- #working woman
- #solitude
- #master servant relationship
- #poor woman
- #1960s
- #west africa
- #dakar
- #enslaving work
- #senegalese cinema
- #black woman
- #foreign country
- #black exploitation
- #french racism
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_Black Girl_ (1966) is a bad movie. I didn’t like it. I know, I know… I’m going to be bashed by others by accusing me of being a racist and/or a sexist and worse yet, claim that I am in favor of domestic slavery, because I am a white male. That is **NOT** so! And no, don’t give me the whole “a good movie doesn’t have to enjoyable” nonsense, because that’s inherently contradictory. There is **
In 1966, Senegalese author Ousmane Sembene was among the first Black Africans to shoot a feature film with <i>La Noire de...</i> ("Black Girl"). It deals with the plight of Diouana (Mbissine Thérèse Diop), a Senegalese girl who is hired on as a nanny by a French expat family in Dakar. Initially she is elated to have work, and moreover, work for the country's white elites. After the family returns