Kings and Queens
The king is dead; vive le cinéma
Watching
The Woman King (2022)
Gina Prince-Bythewood’s West Africa-set epic opens with a title crawl establishing the trans-Atlantic slave trade of the early 1800s as the context for the film to follow. It ends with a parallel title crawl at the tail of the closing credits routinely informing us that the characters and story we have just witnessed are wor…