Up Next in Tessa Thompson’s Adventures in Moviegoing

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  Cléo from 5 to 7

  Cléo from 5 to 7

  Directed by Agnès Varda • 1962 • France
  Starring Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, Dominique Davray

  Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer (Corinne Marchand) set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of ...

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  Tessa Thompson on BLACK GIRL

  Tessa Thompson on BLACK GIRL

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  Black Girl

  Black Girl

  Directed by Ousmane Sembène • 1966 • Senegal
  Starring M’Bissine Thérèse Diop

  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 ...