Movie Review: LIONHEART (A Film By Genevieve Nnaji)

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Netflix bought worldwide rights to the Nollywood movie, LionHeart by the
Nollywood star, Genevieve Nnaji, just a day before its world premiere
at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).

Yesterday, being the 22nd of December, 2018, I went to see this movie.

Some
people call it a comedy movie, but I doubt that that was the intention.
It wasn’t meant to be a comedy, but because of the natural flawlessness
of the characters, because of the presence of one of the most comic
characters in Nollywood, Nkem Owoh, there came laughter.

I
recently saw a Nollywood movie (name withheld) and I thought it was
funny, the dry kind of funny. The funny that makes you laugh but doesn’t
cross your oesophagus, and makes you feel that your laughter doesn’t
belong to you. And the movie leaves you immediately you leave the hall.

But
Lionheart felt completely different. The laughter that came out of me
was not dry, it flowed freely like the source of it, down to the
shoulders, to the heart, and to the unsilent feet, boldly stamping the
carpeted floor of the hall.

I was utterly drawn by the lustrous current of the indigenous languages used. The proverbs were everything. E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G.

Onyeka
Onwenu is an awesome actor. The way she spoke on a particular scene
completely took my breath away. She’d said, ‘you’ve always been able to
do whatever you put your mind to’ in such an alluring way to Adaeze
(Genevieve).

Lionheart was like watching a real family
video with cultural values. And I loved the fact that this family didn’t
pressurize the girl into marriage or ignore her because of her gender. I
loved that this family took their company and the workers as family,
and doing anything that would jeopardize their future was unacceptable.

And
I loved the most that while the family sat together for lunch or
dinner, that they talked like real family, real Igbo family; that there
was this exhibition of fear for a boy who gets into music, that there
was the tender admonition and laughter and the love that was so real and
true. It equally showed a mother who believed in the dreams of her son,
and you have no doubt that mothers are like this.

This
movie doesn’t leave you when you leave the hall. It stays with you. It
nudges you and tickles when you are walking down the street lighted by
the neon lights, when you’re in the car listening to Phyno’s songs. And
you’d decide in all of these that you’d see the movie again, and maybe
again and again.

This movie has not gotten the hype it deserves.

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