Eat Bitter

Eat Bitter

2023
1h 33m
2.0

2.0/10

1 votes • View on IMDb
Documentary
Overview

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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Status: Released

Language: SG

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Production Information

Production Companies
Kea-Kwis Productions Oaz Picture Entertainment Perpetuo Films MJagger
Production Countries
Central African Republic United States of America
Spoken Languages
Sango Mandarin French

Keywords

rebuilding construction worker financial hardship

Quick Facts

Release Date March 21, 2023
Status Released
Language SG
IMDb ID tt25941904

Cast

Key Crew

Pascale Appora-Gnekindy
Director
Ningyi Sun
Director
Mathieu Faure
Writer
Pascale Appora-Gnekindy
Writer
Mathieu Faure
Executive Producer
Steve Dorst
Executive Producer
Mathieu Faure
Producer
Ningyi Sun
Writer