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The Black Tulip
Directed by
Sonia Nassery Cole
Not Rated
2012
1h 56m
Drama
6.6
25%
62%
5.0
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The Mansouri family opens up a new restaurant after the fall of the Taliban in Kabul, Afghanistan only to be subsequently targeted by factional Taliban elements.
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Cast of The Black Tulip
Haji Gul Aser
Hadar Mansouri
Sonia Nassery Cole
Farishta / Director / Writer / Producer
Leo Solomon
Akram Zabuli
Somajia Razaya
Belkis Mansouri
Hosna Tanha
Bobo Jan
Basir Mujaheed
Amanullah
Shafi Sahel
Old Afghan Poet
Payenda Joyenda
Gul
Sadaf Yarmal
Satara Mansouri
Sayed Rahim Sayeedi
Majuba
David Michael O'Neill
Writer
David McFarland
Director Of Photography
Chris Innis
Editor
Rebecca Grace
Editor
Christopher Young
Original Music Composer
Samir Rassoly
Line Producer
Rahim Sayeedi
Casting
The Black Tulip Ratings & Reviews
Paste Magazine
Chelsey Grasso
Getting a film like The Black Tulip filmed, produced and out into the public is an impressive feat -- it's just a shame the effort didn't yield a better film.
The Hollywood Reporter
John DeFore
Well-meaning but unconvincing drama looks for optimism in Afghanistan.
Variety
Dennis Harvey
A well-intentioned drama that would play much better if it didn't feel the need to make that message quite so heavy-handedly obvious.
Film-Forward.com
Nora Lee Mandel
Brave, well-meaning effort. . .with a mostly local crew in a high-risk locale. . . Best scenes in too-simplistic film are glimpses of cultural traditions, especially music.
New York Post
Farran Smith Nehme
The dialogue is heavily expository, and the actors are not up to the task of breathing life into characters meant to symbolize the Spirit of the Afghan People or the Nature of Evil.
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
Newlyweds are slaughtered, a child kidnapped and a suicide bombing foiled, all of it advanced by chunks of clumsy dialogue and embarrassingly labored acting.
Los Angeles Times
Sheri Linden
[Portrays] a vibrant culture and its festive traditions, rarely evoked in depictions of a nation long devastated by war.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Sonia Nassery Cole's evocative Afghan drama is built on so much local detail, it often has the feel of a documentary.
Slant Magazine
Calum Marsh
It fails despite real stakes to distinguish itself in any way from the action-movie fantasies to which we're greatly accustomed.
Observer
Rex Reed
You will not go away unmoved. See it, and learn something.
Village Voice
Nick Schager
There are good intentions here, but too little nuance ...
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