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“The summer I killed my father, I was ten years old . . .” So begins Kasi Lemmons’s spellbinding feature debut, an evocative journey into the maze of memory, steeped in fragrant southern-gothic atmosphere. In 1960s Louisiana, a young girl (Jurnee Smollett) sees her well-to-do family unravel in the wake of the infidelities of her charming father (Samuel L. Jackson)—setting in motion a ...
Eve's Bayou ist ein Film von Kasi Lemmons mit Jurnee Smollett, Samuel L. Jackson. Synopsis: Was macht ein kleines Mädchen, wenn es eine ungeheure Beobachtung macht, aber ihr niemand glaubt? So ...
Eve's Bayou is also a community where vodoun plays a daily role in the lives of the people; Roz's sister Mozelle (played by Debbi Morgan) is a practitioner of the art, who has lost three husbands and fears she may be cursed, a "black widow." Also crucial to the vodoun elements of the story is Elzora (played by Diahann Carroll), an old woman of the community who has a reputation as a "witch ...
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12. Apr. 2017 · The opening scene of “Eve’s Bayou” is one of the most captivating opening lines I have ever encountered: “Memory is the selection of images, some elusive, others printed indelibly on the brain. The summer I killed my father, I was 10 years old.” As we wonder about what happened during that summer in question, the movie immerses us into the small, vivid world of its young heroine who ...
7. Nov. 1997 · With those opening words, "Eve's Bayou" coils back into the past, into the memories of a child who grew up in a family both gifted and flawed, and tried to find her own way to the truth. The words explain the method of the film. This will not be a simple-minded story that breathlessly races from A to B. It is a selection of memories, filtered ...
19. Okt. 2022 · Picture 9/10. In a wonderful surprise The Criterion Collection releases Kasi Lemmon’s Eve’s Bayou on Blu-ray in two cuts: the theatrical version and the director's cut. The two-disc set presents each cut on individual dual-layer discs both with 1080p/24hz high-definition encodes and in the aspect ratio of 1.85:1.
Eve’s Bayou is a captivating black coming-of-age story, and an impressive directorial debut from Kasi Lemmons. Thanks to a layered, culturally colorful script, Lemmons magically created a microscopic world that's as dreamy and terrifying as the bayous, and the beasts inside are always ready to bite.
