Flick Review < La noire de… / Black Girl | Ousmane Sembene, 1966
La noire de…, 1966
Director / Writer: Ousmane Sembene
Cinematographer: Christian Lacoste
Stars: Mbissine Thérèse, DiopAnne-Marie, JelinekMomar, Nar Sene
Black Girl poster
This is the first feature film made by a black African in sub-Saharan Africa. It is based on a short story which was in turn inspired by a real life incident.
Martin Scorsese’s The Film Foundation actually funding the restoration of this important work, which tells the story of a young Senegalese woman’s disillusionment working for a French family.
«It had such an impact on me. It was so haunting, so ferocious… A door had opened in the West, and for the first time, we could feel a truly African voice in the cinema.»
“An astonishing movie—so ferocious, so haunting, and so unlike anything we’d ever seen.»
Martin Scorsese
