Eve's Bayou (1997)

Directed by

Kasi Lemmons

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 49m

Rated

R

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 154 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In 1960s Louisiana, a 10-year-old girl named Eve witnesses a family secret that tests her trust in her father. The story follows her struggle to understand the complicated adult relationships around her.

melancholiclushslow-burnatmosphericintrospectivehauntingsouthernemotional

What happens

Eve's Bayou is a 1997 American Southern Gothic drama film written and directed by Kasi Lemmons in her feature directorial debut. Samuel L. Jackson served as a producer, and starred in the film with Lisa Nicole Carson, Jurnee Smollett, Lynn Whitfield, Debbi Morgan, Meagan Good, and Diahann Carroll. Following its premiere at the 1997 Toronto International Film Festival, it was released in theaters on November 7, 1997 to both critical and commercial success; it grossed $14 million domestically on a budget of $4 million, becoming the most commercially successful independent film of 1997. The unreliability of memory and observation function as important themes throughout the film. In 2018, the film was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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