Once Upon a Time in Uganda
You know, I bought this one a while back and it's been sitting un-watched on my coffee table since it was delivered. It just never seemed to make it to the top of the "Next Thing to Watch" list. Frankly, it still wasn't as of this afternoon, that is until I happened to check my Letterboxd Stats for 2023, where I discovered (to my shame) that I hadn't watched a film from the entire African continent in 2023. 253
I'd never missed an entire continent since joining the site back in 2012, so it kinda felt like a moral imperative to do something about it.
So, frankly, in over the last few years, I've begun to sour on movies about making movies. I've seen a good number of them in just the last few years, but I feel there's been nothing in the last 30 years that's topped The Player. Be that as it may, Once Upon a Time in Uganda proved to be a really entertaining little documentary about a subject I really didn't know much about. It feels good to close out the year with such a nice surprise. 583