She took up chess when she was 9 and, as Nair vividly chronicles, became an international competitor and national champion in her early teens. This surprisingly juicy film is based on the true story of Phiona Mutesi (Madina Nalwanga), a girl from Katwe, a sprawling, blighted district in Uganda’s capital, Kampala. It’s an elating achievement, and it’s all the more remarkable because she pulls it off in the context of an underdog sports movie.
In Queen of Katwe, the director Mira Nair captures the vitality and improbable beauty of the dense, crowded street culture in an East African slum without sentimentalizing its people or underplaying their deprivations and hazards.
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