{"product_id":"black-girl-dvd","title":"Black Girl (DVD)","description":"\u003cp\u003eOusmane Sembène was one of the greatest and most groundbreaking filmmakers who ever lived, as well as the most renowned African director of the twentieth century—and yet his name still deserves to be better known in the rest of the world. He made his feature debut in 1966 with the brilliant and stirring\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlack Girl.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eSembène, 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 white family and finds that life in their small apartment becomes a prison, both figuratively and literally—into a complexly layered critique of the lingering colonialist mind-set of a supposedly postcolonial world. Featuring a moving central performance by M’Bissine Thérèse Diop,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlack Girl\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a harrowing human drama as well as a radical political statement—and one of the essential films of the 1960s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlack Girl\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas restored by the Cineteca di Bologna\/L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, in association with the Sembène Estate; INA, Institut National de l’Audiovisuel; Éclair; and the Centre National de Cinématographie. Restoration funded by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorom sarret\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas restored in 2013 by the Cineteca di Bologna\/L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory and Éclair, in association with The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project; INA, Institut National de l’Audiovisuel; and the Sembène Estate. Restoration funded by Doha Film Institute.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4 class=\"header_lvl2 hideSmall\" data-feature-title-field=\"\"\u003eSpecial Features\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-features-list\" data-special-features-field=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew 4K digital restoration, undertaken by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project in collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4K restoration of the short film\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBorom sarret,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003edirector Ousmane Sembène’s acclaimed 1963 debut\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew interviews with scholars Manthia Diawara and Samba Gadjigo\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExcerpt from a 1966 broadcast of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eJT de 20h,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003efeaturing Sembène accepting the Prix Jean Vigo for\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlack Girl\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew interview with actor M’Bissine Thérèse Diop\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eSembène: The Making of African Cinema,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ea 1994 documentary about the filmmaker by Diawara and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAlternate color sequence\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTrailer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew English subtitle translation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePLUS: An essay by critic Ashley Clark\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew cover by Eric Skillman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Criterion Collection","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44268768526536,"sku":"CC2721DDVD","price":38.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0598\/8486\/3688\/files\/blackgirldvd.jpg?v=1733255803","url":"https:\/\/videomatica.com\/es\/products\/black-girl-dvd","provider":"Videomatica Ltd (since 1983)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}