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Plot. 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.
Eve’s Bayou opens with a line as haunting as they come: “Memory is the selection of images, some elusive, others printed indelibly on the brain.” This is the voice of Eve Batiste, who continues, “The summer I killed my father, I was ten years old.”
Louis Batiste (Samuel L. Jackson) is their father and a successful, beloved doctor in the community. Their mother, Roz (Lynn Whitfield) is a homemaker, whose beauty is referenced throughout the film. There appears to be a strong family dynamic and they are living the quintessential American dream.
May 8, 2009 · 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’s late-night house calls.
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”.
Apr 21, 2020 · The film ends up being less about "our" Eve and more about the Batiste family in general: father Louis (Jackson) is a doctor and a highly respected member of the community, part of the emerging Black upper middle class in the middle of the 20th Century; he's also having an affair, possibly several of them.
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Nov 7, 1997 · Summer heats up in rural Louisiana beside Eve’s Bayou, 1962, as the Batiste family tries to survive the secrets they’ve kept and the betrayals they’ve endured.
