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Black Girl

Black Girl

7.2/ 10

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1966

Release Year

65 min

Runtime

Drama

Overview

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.

Keywords

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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Reviews(2)

2.0avg rating
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CRCulver

June 8, 2019

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

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Jaxob Zeier

@JacobZeier92

July 24, 2025

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2/10

_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 g

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