Anthony Thompson
MOVIE REVIEW
Queen of Glory (2021)
King of Glory is the name of the bookstore Sarah Obeng (Nana Mensah, also the writer-director) unexpectedly inherits when her mother suddenly dies. It’s a Christian bookstore in the Bronx, staffed by Pitt (Meeko Gattuso), a gentle ex-con with such alarming face tattoos everyone new he meets instantly recoils. While Sarah grew up in the store, her adulthood has been spent as a molecular neuro-oncologist, although she’s still a grad student with a heavy academic caseload. But she also has a boyfriend, fellow scientist Lyle (Adam Leon), with whom she plans to relocate to the Midwest, leaving his inconvenient wife and children behind. But the complications of the funeral rites Ghanaian culture requires means Sarah’s new life might have to start moving in another direction.