Highly acclaimed directorial debut from actress Kasi Lemmons is a richly-textured gothic family drama set in Louisiana in 1962. Samuel L. Jackson is a loving but philandering doctor whose adulterous ways lead Eve, his youngest daughter, to seek help ...
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Highly acclaimed directorial debut from actress Kasi Lemmons is a richly-textured gothic family drama set in Louisiana in 1962. Samuel L. Jackson is a loving but philandering doctor whose adulterous ways lead Eve, his youngest daughter, to seek help from a local voodoo queen. The film's superior cast also includes Lynn Whitfield, Diahann Carroll, and Jurnee Smollett as Eve. Director's cut; 108 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital 5.1; Subtitles: English, Spanish; audio commentary; bonus short; filmography; theatrical trailer.Amazon.com
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 ShannonSimilarProduct
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