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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.
Jun 24, 2020 · The Plot: In a Creole neighborhood in 1960s Louisiana, the seemingly perfect Batiste family falls apart through the eyes of middle child Eve (Jurnee Smollett). One night at a party, Eve witnesses her father, respected doctor Louis (Samuel L. Jackson), having an affair.
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.”
Bayou is seen through the eyes of a partial bystander — Eve Batiste (Jurnee Smollett). Based on Scout from To Kill A Mockingbird, she roams her town in earnest, intent on solving wrongdoings within her family — namely her father’s.
Dec 1, 2022 · Her aunt Mozelle Batiste Delacroix regarding herself as a “psychic counsellor,” helping others find things which are lost and moving on when they are irreplaceable, her life has been one of tragedy, three times a widow, and Eve stumbles on other truths closer to home, that her father is not the husband that he should be, that some of the ...
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.
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Set in lavish Louisiana in the 1960s, Lemmons’ Eve’s Bayou follows 10-year-old Eve Batiste, a tenacious and curious young Black girl who chronicles the summer of her father’s death.
