Black Tea

2024

Action / Drama / Romance

3
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 33% · 18 reviews
IMDb Rating 5.2/10 10 597 597

tea interracial relationship accidental love tea ceremony côte d'ivoire guangzhou, china

Plot summary

Aya, a young Ivorian woman in her early thirties, says no on her wedding day, to everyone’s astonishment. After emigrating to Asia, she works in a tea export shop with Cai, a 45-year-old Chinese man. Aya and Cai fall in love but can their affair survive the turmoil of their past and other people’s prejudices?

Director

Abderrahmane Sissako Photo
Abderrahmane Sissako

Top cast

Ghislaine Kanga Photo
Ghislaine Kanga as La femme du couple afro-chinois
Chuang-Cheng Tao Photo
Chuang-Cheng Tao as Le père de Ying
Roger Pégard Photo
Roger Pégard as Le maire
Yu-Wen Fan Photo
Yu-Wen Fan as La mère de Ying
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1012.03 MB
1280*690
Turkish 2.0
NR
tr  us  
24 fps
1 hr 50 min
Seeds 6
1.84 GB
1920*1036
Turkish 2.0
NR
tr  us  
24 fps
1 hr 50 min
Seeds 13

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by peter0969 4 / 10

Beautiful and Good Hearted, yet execution ends poorly

From making Waiting for Happiness and Timbuktu, Abderrahmane Sissako struggles to handle this story with characters that feel aimless and uninteresting to explore and a storyline that becomes convoluted.Undeniably a well-made production as the camerawork, production designs, costumes, and musical score is really good. The performances from the cast members are solid on it's own. The issues is that the characters unfortunately are not interesting to fully engage with, crafted with poorly written dialogue, messy tone, and directions that clearly indicates that the story doesn't fully understand where it wants to focus on.The experience of Black people in China is an interesting concept but unfortunately the movie doesn't do a good job on exploring the concepts. Alongside with some really uneven pacing that puts viewers to sleep.Disappointing.
Reviewed by notitle-68 5 / 10

Good intention, bad result

Reviewed by yediali 7 / 10

This is not hot dog

It is good movie. I don't want to say "It reflects Asian or African culture" but it is.I have been so bored main stream movies. At these days, so many thing are done the same way, technically and emotionally. Everything is ready to consume. No need to make effort to understand characters, "behaviors" and behind their stories. No need to thing before and after. It is just 90 minutes ready to consume.And story-wise it is ok. No need to be linear or non linear story. Actually, no need to be a story at all. Yes, I am talking about movies. I think, it can be like tea. You can drink it in three sips. Visually, aurally and emotionally..
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