A Tribute to Ousmane Sembène

Sembène tackles the myth of decolonization in his debut feature about a young Senegalese woman who eagerly accepts an offer to travel to France with the family for whom she babysits. Out of Africa, however, she finds that she's just "the black girl." "A stark, inventive portrait of colonial displacement" (J. Hoberman, "Village Voice"). In French with English subtitles. Senegal, 1965, 35mm, b/w, subtitled, 60 min. With Thérèse M'bissine Diop, Anne-Marie Jelinek, Robert Fontaine.