Overinvested
Overinvested
Overinvested Podcast
Ep. 277: Black Girl (1966)
49 minutes Posted Mar 10, 2023 at 7:37 pm.
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This week, we discuss the influential 1966 Senegalese film "Black Girl," written and directed by Ousmane Sembene. The film follows a Senegalese young woman who works as a nanny for a white French family whose life turns into a nightmare when she accompanies them back to France and is forced to work as a maid.
Topics include the film's overt postcolonial politics, its thoughtful deployment of production design and costumes, its reception in the west, and more.