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A Trip to the Moon and the birth of narrative film

★★★★★ Georges Méliès, magician of the cinema! A Trip to the Moon (Le voyage dans la lune) is a film by French illusionist and director Georges Méliès. Created in 1902, it was one of the most influential early narrative films. It was not the first narrative film, because arguably "The Fairy of the Cabbages (La…

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Black Girl and the birth of sub-Saharan Cinema

★★★★★ Kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, livingroom. That's all I ever see. Black Girl (La Noire de...) is a french-Senegal film from 1966 by director/writer Ousmane Sembène. Based on a short story he wrote. The movie is about a young women named Diouana, played by Mbissine Thérèse Diop, who immigrates from Dakar to Antibes in France to…