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  1. Black Girl stars Mbissine Thérèse Diop as Diouana, a young Senegalese woman who moves from Dakar, Senegal to Antibes, France to work for a French couple. In France, Diouana hopes to continue her former job as a nanny and anticipates a new cosmopolitan lifestyle.

  2. Black Girl. Sembène, 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 ...

  3. Black Girl: Directed by Ousmane Sembene. With Mbissine Thérèse Diop, Anne-Marie Jelinek, Robert Fontaine, Momar Nar Sene. A black girl from Senegal becomes a servant in France.

  4. Black Girl. Ousmane Sembène was one of the greatest and most groundbreaking filmmakers who ever lived, as well as the most renowned African director of the twentieth century—and yet his name still deserves to be better known in the rest of the world.

  5. A young Senegalese woman becomes a maid for a French couple but is constantly mistreated and made aware of her race.

  6. Jul 26, 2023 · The 100 Best Movies of the Past 10 Decades. Black Girl (1966) Mbissine Thérèse Diop in Black Girl. Courtesy Criterion Collection. July 26, 2023 7:32 AM EDT. For better or worse, we live in...

  7. In 1966, Senegalese author Ousmane Sembene was among the first Black Africans to shoot a feature film with La Noire de... ("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.