When she gets her revenge, kicking his arse, Phiona doesn't believe it – or in herself. One little shit wipes his hand on the tablecloth after a handshake with Phiona. When the kids travel to a tournament at a fancy boarding school, the rich kids sneer at them. There are no surprises here. What you expect to happen, happens (and you wonder why the filmmakers chose not to mention that Phiona’s dad died from Aids?).
If the uplifting underdog story of Phiona Mutesi didn't exist, Disney might have invented it.
Wisecracking and charismatic, they light up the screen with their natural and full-of-life performances. It’s impossible to watch the young cast that Nair (‘Monsoon Wedding’) has assembled without a big smile creeping on to your face. She can’t read or write, but she’s transfixed by the pieces on wooden boards painted with black and white squares.
QUEEN OF KATWE STREAM FREE
What lures Phiona into a chess club for slum children run by a volunteer (‘Selma’ actor David Oyelowo) is a free cup of porridge. We meet Phiona (Madina Nalwanga) aged nine selling corn from a bowl on her head to help her mum (Lupita Nyong’o), a widow raising five kids on her own. Set in one of Uganda's poorest slums, Katwe (pronounced Kah-tway), this English-language film is based on the story of real-life chess prodigy Phiona Mutesi, who overcame two impossible hurdles – being poor and being a girl – to become a teenage champion. The irresistible message of Mira Nair’s big-hearted Disney feelgood film 'Queen of Katwe’ is that when kids grow up in poverty in developing countries, the world misses out on some of its best and brightest talents.
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