Eat Bitter (2023)
1h 33m
Running Time
March 21, 2023Release Date
Plot.
A local construction worker and a Chinese engineer are assigned to build a bank in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, one of the poorest countries in the world. But time is short and resources are scarce, and there are rumours in the countryside that a new civil war is brewing. And as if all this wasn’t bad enough, their relationships to their wives are falling apart. ‘Eat Bitter’ mirrors the existential and mundane problems of the two men, while an unlikely friendship and mutual trust blossoms between them. However, the chaotic microcosm of the construction site also mirrors China’s contradictory role in 21st century Africa, with the bank itself as the ultimate symbol of money, power and illusion. Director duo Pascale Appora-Gnekindy and Ningyi Sun themselves represent each of the two cultures, and their film has a unique eye for the human fallibility and irony of it all, but also for how we can reach each other despite all our many differences.
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Cast & Crew.
Hannah Choe
Editor
Aaron Koyassoukpengo
Sound
Pascale Appora-Gnekindy
Director / Writer / Co-Producer
Ningyi Sun
Director
Mathieu Faure
Editor / Producer / Executive Producer / Writer
Orphee Zaza Emmanuel Bamoy
Director of Photography / Co-Producer
Cal Freundlich Moore
Original Music Composer / Music
Thomas Boa
Music
Media.
Details.
This Movie Is About.
rebuilding
construction worker
financial hardship