Black female writer-director Kasi Lemmons made her feature directorial debut with this period family drama set in the South. Depicting the the African-American experience with a female slant, Lemmons shunned the usual urban violence and race issues of black films for a different approach, a jambalaya of Southern gentility, bayou traditions, and voodoo visions. The Southern Gothic saga pivots around a prosperous Creole family in Louisiana during the year 1962 — as seen through the eyes of intensely curious, precocious, and perceptive ten-year-old Eve Batiste (Jurnee Smollett). Eve’s coming-of-age events are introduced through her adult voiceover narration (Tamara Tunie), which begins, “Memory is a selection of images, some elusive, others printed indelibly on the brain. The summer I killed my father, I was ten years old.” Her father, Louis Batiste (Samuel L. Jackson), is the area’s much-respected doctor, and the proud and beautiful Roz (Lynn Whitfield) is Eve’s mother. But Louis has an eye for other women, and after Eve catches him in the barn with an attractive, married woman, Matty Mereaux (Lisa Nicole Carson), he must reassure the child that he still loves her mother. Nevertheless, Eve is shaken by what she has seen, and she tells her older sister Cisely (Meagan Good). Eve’s impulsive Aunt Mozelle (Debbi Morgan), a sexy, superstitious widow with three past husbands, has taken on a new lover, Julian Grayraven (Vondie Curtis Hall). Finding her beliefs in family loyalty crumbling, the young girl visits voodoo priestess Elzora (Diahann Carroll). A Pandora’s box of long-buried Batiste clan secrets has been opened beneath the shade of the magnolia trees, and Eve struggles through the summer to save her family. Filmed on location by cinematographer Amy Vincent. Actor Vondie Curtis Hall is the husband of director Lemmons. Shown at the Telluride and Toronto film festivals., In the sweltering summer of 1962, a prominent Louisiana family begins to fall apart, as a 10-year-old girl uncovers truths about her philandering father that will change their lives forever. Samuel L. Jackson, Jurnee Smollett, Meagan Good. Kasi Lemmons directed., Tale about the shifting psychological ties that bind an affluent Southern black family in the 1960s, as seen through the eyes of a 10-year-old who worships her philandering father.
Q&A :
Q: Who are the main cast members in “Eve’s Bayou ” ?
A: The main cast includes Jurnee Smollett-Bell,Meagan Good,Samuel L. Jackson,Lynn Whitfield,Debbi Morgan,Jake Smollett,Ethel Ayler,Diahann Carroll,Vondie Curtis Hall,Lisa Nicole Carson,Tamara Tunie,Roger Guenveur Smith,Branford Marsalis,Afonda Colbert,Lola Dalferes,Marcus Lyle Brown,Alverta Perkins Dunigan,Ron Flagge,Sharon K. London,Carol Sutton,Victoria Rowell,Oneal A. Isaac,Julian Dalcour,Leonard Thomas,Allen Toussaint,Billie Neal,Julie Silverman Yourn,Karyn Wagner,Kasi Lemmons,M. Cevin Cathell,Jay Polstein,Eli Selden,Joanne Schmidt,Cevin Cathell,Nick Wechsler,Robyn M. Mitchell,Michael Bennett,Terilyn A. Shropshire,Margaret Matheson,Adele Plauche,Jeffrey Howard,Amy Vincent,Jaki Brown-Karman.
Q: When Did the “Eve’s Bayou” Released?
A: The Movie “Eve’s Bayou” originally aired on 1997-11-17 and released in the year of 1997.
Q: What Languages are available to watch “Eve’s Bayou” ?
A: Is also available in eng language.
Q: Where to watch “Eve’s Bayou” ?
A: “Eve’s Bayou” is Avaiable on Netflix. as its Netflix Originals.
