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Eve Batiste, age 10, lives in a prosperous Creole-American community in Louisiana with her younger brother Poe and her older sister Cisely in the 1960s. Their parents are Roz and Louis, a well-respected doctor in Louisiana's African American community who claims descent from the French aristocrat who founded the town of Eve's Bayou.
Apr 12, 2017 · When Mozelle reminisces a tragic night when her lover confronted her first husband, we behold that incident inside in a big mirror along with Eve. The result is a hauntingly magical moment which powerfully echoes when Eve painfully faces the ramification of her impulsive action. Although it received heaps of praises from critics and audiences ...
Eve's Bayou: Directed by Kasi Lemmons. With Jurnee Smollett, Meagan Good, Samuel L. Jackson, Lynn Whitfield. What did little Eve see--and how will it haunt her?
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- Drama
- Kasi Lemmons
- 1997-11-07
Oct 25, 2022 · N ot long after November 7, 1997, the day Eve’s Bayou was released in the United States, my lover and I went to a multiplex outside Pittsburgh to see it. I was a PhD student in film studies at the University of Pittsburgh, and excited to see a film with an all-Black cast, written and directed by a Black woman, Kasi Lemmons, screening at a mainstream suburban theater.
Nov 7, 1997 · Eve’s Bayou. Action. 109 minutes ‧ R ‧ 1997. Roger Ebert. November 7, 1997. 5 min read. “Memory is a selection of images, some elusive, others printed indelibly on the brain. The summer I killed my father, I was 10 years old.”. With those opening words, “Eve’s Bayou” coils back into the past, into the memories of a child who ...
Sep 5, 2022 · Eve’s Bayou is a powerhouse in the Southern Gothic tradition, ... Eve’s Bayou begins with a party at the Batiste house, where the love and devotion among the family members are almost palpable ...
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Eve: “The town we lived in was named after a slave. It was said that when General John Paul Batiste was stricken with cholera, his life was saved by the powerful medicine of an African slave woman called Eve. In return for his life, he freed her, and gave her this piece of land by the Bayou. Perhaps in gratitude, she bore him sixteen children.
