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Eve's Bayou is a 1997 American Southern Gothic drama film written and directed by Kasi Lemmons, who made her directorial debut with this film. Samuel L. Jackson served as a producer, and starred in the film with Lisa Nicole Carson, Jurnee Smollett, Lynn Whitfield, Debbi Morgan, Meagan Good, and Diahann Carroll.
Apr 12, 2017 · “Eve’s Bayou” is a haunting drama of love, hate, guilt and sorrow, and is surprisingly more complex and powerful than expected. It freely drifts around emotional realism and magic realism via its distinctive Southern atmosphere. The film is set in Louisiana during the early 1960s.
Mar 6, 2019 · Kasi Lemmons created a film which opened doors, allowing black independent women filmmakers to venture on the edge of awakenings, creating rich and complex stories with no responsibility other than to create unrestricted, carefree, Black art. A look at the greatness and influence of Eve's Bayou.
Aug 7, 2017 · Her debut film - Eve’s Bayou - started out as a novel before Lemmons turned it into a script and a film which would be widely viewed as a classic of contemporary black cinema, and cited as an influence on films like 'Beasts of the Southern Wild' and Beyonce’s visual album 'Lemonade'.
Nov 7, 1997 · EVE'S BAYOU Directed by Kasi Lemmons Starring Samuel Jackson, Lynn Whitfield. By Jeremy J. Ross, CONTRIBUTING WRITER. November 7, 1997. Like most memorable cinematic upscales, Eve's Bayou...
May 12, 2023 · Eve’s Bayou: Director’s Cut screens May 12–18 at BAM in a new digital restoration. “Memory is a selection of images,” narrates the now adult voice of Eve Batiste, “some elusive, others printed indelibly on the brain”.
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The debut feature of Harriet director Kasi Lemmons, Eve’s Bayou is a haunting coming-of-age story and meditation on the power of memory to both heal and reopen lasting wounds. Movingly conjuring a Louisiana childhood steeped in local culture and family lore, Eve’s Bayou follows the awakening of young girl as she comes to realize that her ...