| | | The secrets that hold us together can also tear us apart.
Features: DVD, Widescreen, Dolby Digital (5.1), Digital Audio, English, Spanish
Summer heats up in rural Louisiana beside Eve's Bayou as the Batiste family tries to survive the secrets they've kept and the betrayals they've endured. Louis Batiste (Samuel L. Jackson), the local town doctor with a special bedside manner, is a loving father and a philandering husband. His wife Roz (Lynn Whitfeld) is forced to admit her family is falling apart when her younger daughter, Eve, witnesses one of her father's infidelities. Struggling to make sense of what she has seen, Eve turns to her older sister Cisely, who dismisses her in fear of the truth, and then to her Aunt Mozelle (Debbie Morgan), a known psychic and rumored black widow. Unable to find the understanding she is looking for, Eve decides to take matters into her own hands. As the heat rises so does the tension. For the Batiste family, the ties that bind may not be strong enough to keep them together, and what they learn will change their lives forever.
"...a lovingly made, beautifully acted piece..." Barbara Shulgasser, San Francisco Examiner
"...sexual intrigue and secrecy--merges to create an atmosphere of extraordinary erotic tension and anxiety." Stephen Holden, New York Times
Editor's Note
A father's philandering nature is only one of several problems for a black southern family, but, to 9 year-old Eve, it is the most immediate. As her suspicions deepen, so does her desire to bring the infidelity to an end, even if it means calling down justice on its perpetrator. A stylish, southern Gothic tale of family discord and coming of age by first-time writer/director Lemmons.
| Features | French Subtitles | | Spanish Subtitles | | Filmography | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Access | | Theatrical Trailer | | MCA Soundtrack Presentation | | English 5.1 Surround Dolby Digital | | Digitally Mastered | | Widescreen Version | | Production Commentary | | Kasi Lemmons' Dr. Hugo--The Short Film, An Illumination Of Eve's Bayou |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Trimark |
| Release Date: 2/18/2003 |
| Running Time: 108 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1997 | | Catalog ID: 8223-D | | UPC: 00031398822325 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Available Subtitles: English, Spanish | | Video: Color |
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| | Professional Reviews | USA Today
"...An uncommonly original memory movie..." -- 3 out of 4 stars 11/07/1997 p.8DFilm Comment
"...A strong cast..." 11/01/1997 p.52 New York Times
"...[A] powerfully acted supernatural fever dream....An atmosphere of extraordinary exotic tension and anxiety..." 11/07/1997 Entertainment Weekly
"...A fluid, feminine, African-American, Southern gothic narrative that covers a tremendous amount of emotional territory with the lightest and most graceful of steps..." -- Rating: A- 11/07/1997 p.59 Chicago Sun-Times
"...One of the best films of the year -- elegant, sensuous, haunting....EVE'S BAYOU is serenely confident..." 09/11/1997 p.37 Salon.com 8 of 10
Eve's Bayou treads across a fragile and complex emotional landscape, and Lemmons is exceptionally adept at creating characters who are simultaneously despicable and lovable.... [the movie] is likely to conjure memories of the more difficult times shared with family members--and make you glad there wasn't a witch doctor around every time you swore you wanted to kill one of them. - Cynthia Joyce
Chicago Sun-Times 9 of 10
...Eve's Bayou studies the way that dangerous emotions can build up until something happens that no one is responsible for... All of these moments unfold in a film of astonishing maturity and confidence... one of the very best films of the year... Eve's Bayou resonates in the memory. It called me back for a second and third viewing... - Roger Ebert
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