Un Noire de… (Black Girl)

Un Noire de… (Black Girl)

Country:Senegal

Director:Ousmane Sembene

Year: 
1966

Summary:

A Senegalese woman is eager to find a better life abroad. She takes a job as a governess for a French family, but finds her duties reduced to those of a maid after the family moves from Dakar to the south of France. In her new country, the woman is constantly made aware of her race and mistreated by her employers. Her hope for better times turns to disillusionment and she falls into isolation and despair. Sembene again stresses a double conception with the inner world of the heroine occupying one kind of prominence while her stark and oppressive surroundings take another as Sembene turns bourgeois comfort into grim sterility.