2018 · drama · comedy
Lionheart
Directed by Genevieve Nnaji1h 35m2018
In order to save her father's ailing bus company, competent but perennially overlooked Adaeze must find a way to work alongside feckless uncle Godswill.
Our read: Lionheart (2018) reads as a warm, steady, grounded drama · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, steady, gentle drama / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
- warm
- tender
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How Lionheart feels to watch.
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