Winner of the prestigious Prix Louis Delluc in 1958, "Moi, un noir" marked Jean Rouch's break with traditional ethnography, and his embrace of the collaborative and improvisatory strategies he called "shared ethnography" and "ethnofiction". The film depicts an ordinary week in the lives of men and women from Niger who have migrated to Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire for work.
I, a Negro has generally received very positive reviews.
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I, a Negro was released in 1959 and has generally received very positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 4 reviews, giving I, a Negro (1959) an average rating of 75%.
Overall, cinema-goers much prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 80%, compared to film critics, who gave it a considerably lower average score of 0%. Amateur reviewers enjoyed I, a Negro a lot more than professional critics.
With a score of 75%, I, a Negro is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1959, which stands at 59%.
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