Black Girl (1966) - (Movie Clip) It All Began That Morning

Black Girl (1966) -- (Movie Clip) Will Someone Be Waiting For Me?

After shots establishing the French port at Antibes, our first look at the title character, Mbissine Thérèse Diop, as Diouana, arriving from Senegal, collected by her employer (Robert Fontaine), in the celebrated first feature by Dakar-born Ousmane Sembene, by then an established international novelist, from Black Girl (a.k.a. La Noire de…, 1966.

Black Girl (1966) -- (Movie Clip) I've Never Kissed A Black Woman

Mbissine Thérèse Diop, as Diouana, several weeks into her work at the home of a French couple in Antibes, where she understood she would be caring for their children, is insulted by “Madame” (Anne-Marie Jelinck), then narrates her frustration, when she’s required to cook, early in writer-director Ousmane Sembene’s Black Girl (a.k.a. La Noire de…, 1966.