Eve's Bayou
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Actor: Debbi Morgan, Jurnee Smollett, Lynn Whitfield, Meagan Good, Samuel L. JacksonBrand: LGF
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 109 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-03-25
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Lions Gate
Movie Reviews of Eve's Bayou
Movie Review: My favorite movie EVER!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Kasi Lemmons is phenomenal as director, she also wrote it! The movie is well acted and written. Oscar worthy performances by Jurnee Smollett and Samuel L. Jackson. Excellent cast, Debbi Morgan owned the role of Mozelle! Jurnee Smollett really evolves into a great actress!
In the film, Roz(Whitfield)is a devoted mother of three who can't admit that her marriage is falling apart due to Louis' (Jackson)philandering ways. The youngest daughter and middle child Eve(Jurnee Smollett), witnesses her father having an affair. Desperate to make sense of what she witnesses, Eve turns to her older sister Cisely (Meagan Good) who puts a creative twist on what Eve has seen. Still not satisfied, Eve turns to her Aunt Mozelle(Morgan) who warns that if she ever told a soul she'd kill her. Unable to find the understanding she is looking for Eve, turns to Elzora(Carroll) to put an ending to her family's suffering.
The film opens with the Batiste having a party at their home where we meet the main characters. We learn that Eve is the middle of three children and is ten years old. Now as the film opens with a voice-over of adult Eve giving background to the movie, she starts by saying, 'Memory is a selection of images some elusive others printed indelibly on the brain...'which lets us know that the whole movie is from a recollection of a child. The events are seen through the eyes of ten-year old Eve.
You immediately see the bond between Cisely and Louis instantly. She is the epitome of a Daddy's girl. Eve 's particularly close with Mozelle. She confides in her about what she has seen. Poe and Roz are close. All the children have a close relationship with an adult.
There were so many scenes in the movie that screamed volumes but they were no words. We saw the relationship between Cisely and Eve when they were sitting on the chaise, after the storm and Roz hit Cis. When Cisely put her finger to her lip signaling to eve to keep quiet. The spider on the window when Mozelle and GrayRaven were kissing.(Mozelle was known as a black spider, because all the men she married died.) Amy Vincent was in charge of photography and she did an excellent job at capturing the Bayou, alot of great shots in the film.
Summary of Eve's Bayou
Synopsis:Item Type: DVD Movie
Item Rating: R
Street Date: 11/13/07
Wide Screen: no
Director Cut: no
Special Edition: no
LanguageENGLISH
Foreign Film: no
Subtitlesno
Dubbed: no
Full Frame: no
Re-Release: no
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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. --Jeff Shannon
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