By Kovie Biakolo ·Updated January 23, 2023
In its first few scenes, Girl appeared to be yet another typical story of a poor West African migrant mother and her child, depicting how the strictness and traumas of the former would manifest in their treatment of the latter. Yet director Adura Onashile’s debut feature out of Sundance allows for a much more arresting narrative to evolve between mom Grace (Déborah Lukumuena)
