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Eve Batiste, age 10, lives in a prosperous Creole-American community in Louisiana with her younger brother Poe and her older sister Cisely in the 1960s. Their parents are Roz and Louis, a well-respected doctor in Louisiana's African American community who claims descent from the French aristocrat who founded the town of Eve's Bayou. One night ...
Nov 7, 1997 · Eve's Bayou: Directed by Kasi Lemmons. With Jurnee Smollett, Meagan Good, Samuel L. Jackson, Lynn Whitfield. What did little Eve see--and how will it haunt her?
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Feb 12, 2020 · Eve’s Bayou follows the Batiste family, who act as a picture-perfect vision of the American family; they live in a home with four bathrooms and are able to throw lavish house parties filled with laughter and classical, Southern ambiance. It is the youngest daughter, Eve (Jurnee Smollett), that acts as the narrator of the film, telling her story through a collection of memories of the summer ...
May 8, 2009 · From the memory of the ten-year-old in the 1960s, the Batiste family is fully introduced. Louis Batiste (Sam Jackson), Eve’s father, is the local, well-off doctor, whose much sought-after skills seem to go beyond the sick room. Roz Batiste (Lynn Whitfield) is his wife, a woman who keeps her eyes on Creole tradition and away from her husband ...
Oct 25, 2022 · As its title suggests, Eve’s Bayou is set in the bayous of Louisiana; instead of turning the spectator’s attention to the politics of a “hood,” it focuses on the troubles that unfold over the course of the summer of 1962 for the Batistes, a bourgeois Black Creole family who are descendants of Eve, a formerly enslaved woman, and Jean Paul Batiste, the military general who freed her ...
Eve's Bayou. Over the course of a long, hot Louisiana summer, a 10-year-old black girl, Eve Batiste (Jurnee Smollett), discovers that her family's affluent existence is merely a facade. The ...
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Nov 7, 1997 · The vehicle for the story is an adult woman’s memories of her childhood in the 1960s. Ten-year-old Eve Batiste (newcomer Jurnee Smollett), a wise and observant child, is reasonably fond of her ...
