Sacred nuts. In this visceral and rousing action epic set in 1823, grizzled West African warrior General Namisca (Viola Davis) realises a prophesy has come to pass, and growls, in the direction of her spiritually-inclined wing-woman Amenza (Sheila Atim), “Your nuts were finally right!”
The Woman King has many serious things to say about colonialism, misogyny and greed, but could never be accused of taking itself too seriously. Like Black Panther, a film to which it’s bound to be compared, Gina Prince-Bythewood’s offering is both groundbreaking and happy to play by old-school rules (as in: make ‘em laugh).
