Eve's Bayou
by Kasi Lemmons
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Actor: Debbi Morgan, Jurnee Smollett, Lynn Whitfield, Meagan Good, Samuel L. JacksonDirector: Kasi Lemmons
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 1.85:1
Running Time: 108 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-03-25
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Lions Gate
Movie Reviews of Eve's Bayou
Movie Review: Secrets, Misunderstandings & Tragedy
Summary: 4 Stars
When a young girl inadvertently sees her father in a clandestine moment, she is affected in many ways. When she confides in her older sister, her observations are dismissed. From there, we see a gradual decline of the family trust, as the secrets are maintained and the young girl turns to black magic, in the form of a voodoo specialist.
All the secrets emerge in a twisted fashion, against a backdrop of magical elements...And when the family ties are broken and tragedy strikes, nothing will ever be the same again.
Haunting film that depicts how family dysfunction can tear lives apart.
Summary of Eve's Bayou
Actress Kasi Lemmons made an auspicious debut as a writer and director with this delicately handled, wrenchingly emotional drama, hailed by critic Roger Ebert as one of the best films of 1997. Eve's Bayou begins with ominous narration: "The summer I killed my father, I was 10 years old." From that point the story moves backward in time and memory to Louisiana in 1962, when a young girl named Eve (Jurnee Smollett) witnesses a shocking act on the part of her womanizing father (Samuel L. Jackson). But what really happened? And can Eve be certain about what she saw when there is more than one interpretation of the facts? Less a mystery than a study of deeply rooted emotions rising to the surface to affect an entire family, the film has the quality of classic Southern literature, with layers of memory unfolding to reveal a carefully guarded truth. Barely seen during its theatrical release, this lushly photographed film deserves to be rediscovered on digital video disc. --Jeff ShannonDrama DVD Video
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