Cinema in Retrospect: 'Black Girl'
By Henry Skalbeck | December 7, 2022“Black Girl” tells the story of Diouana, a young woman from Senegal who has been trafficked into France to work as an unpaid maid for a middle-class French family.
“Black Girl” tells the story of Diouana, a young woman from Senegal who has been trafficked into France to work as an unpaid maid for a middle-class French family.
“The End of Summer” (1961) is a fascinating film. Like so many of director Yasujiro Ozu’s other films, it explores the textured generational shiftings of a contemporaneous Japan
The condemnation that "Cronos" offers is not of self-improvement but of Christianity’s very notion of sin as a blemish.
The 1953 Japanese Kaidan film, "Ugetsu," is one of director Kenji Mizoguchi’s most chilling visions. Through it, he paints a tainted portrait of the past, colored by explorations of strife and destruction inherent to patriarchy.