Blu-ray, DVD Release: Black Girl

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Laurence
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Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Jan. 24, 2017
Price: DVD $22.99, Blu-ray $26.19
Studio: Criterion

Ousmane Sembène (Xala, Faat Kiné), the most internationally renowned African directors of the 20th Century, made his feature debut in 1966 with the brilliant and stirring drama Black Girl.

blackgirl1_optSembène, 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 couple 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, Black Girl is a harrowing human drama as well as a radical political statement-and one of the essential films of the 1960s.

Criterion’s Blu-ray and DVD editions of Black Girl contain the following features:

* New 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
* 4K restoration of the short film Borom sarret, director Ousmane Sembène’s acclaimed 1963 debut
* New interviews with scholars Manthia Diawara and Samba Gadjigo
* Excerpt from a 1966 broadcast of JT 20h, featuring Sembène accepting the Prix Jean Vigo for Black Girl
* New interview with actor M’Bissine Thérèse Diop
* Trailer
* New English subtitle translation
* An essay by critic Ashley Clark
* More!

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About Laurence

Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.