Black Girl (Ousmane Sembène, 1966) aka La noire de ..., wr. Ousmane Sembène; Mbissine Thérèse Diop, Anne-Marie Jelinek, Robert Fontaine
Diouana is hired in Dakar to look after children of Parisian bourgeois, but it treated as a slave. Scenes in Senegal and the representation of Africans are very good, but I cdn't believe the French characters. Roger Ebert writes that "one feels that Sembene learned filmmaking by making this film". I would not disagree.
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