. . . who was portrayed in the docudrama THE LAST KING OF SC0TLAND. When a favored aide makes love to Amin's youngest wife in his biopic, the outraged husband has her filleted--literally. When YEELEN's 13th Century King Rouma Boll suffers the same loss of face at the hams of HIS junior consort, Attou, he merely exiles her with the seducing royal aide, journeyman wizard Niankoro. Which is a shortcut to understanding that the film YEELEN is much more similar to a HARY POTTER flick than it is to the "House of Blood" horror genre films that SC0TLAND, THE BANGBANG CLUB, WINNIE MANDALA and many other features set in a more contemporary Africa portray. Though the white subtitles used here are NOT very legible during the brighter daylight scenes, this movie is visual enough that you don't miss much from this technical snafu.
Review of Yeelen
