Zouzou

Marc Allégret
,
FR
,
1934
,
b&w
,
91'

As the star of Zouzou, Josephine Baker was the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture. Jazz and the blues defined American “blackness” in Europe during the 1920s and 1930s. Not only does the film resonate with the theme of mutual curiosity between the French and African Americans but it features themes of displacement, disappointment, and longing, characteristic of the blues. (Terri Francis)