Eve's Bayou

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Poe S Feb 5, 2019 This is an incredibly fascinating film by Kasi Simmons. Beginning with this preamble, Eve's Bayou takes us to the Tennessee Williams country of the deep south and introduces us to the rarest of motion picture institutions: an affluent black family. (Judging by the movies, most blacks live in inner city ghettos.) Ultimately, however, this film is not about skin color, but about the deeply-rooted bonds that join women together, which not even the most tragic of mistakes can obliterate. The setting -- a small town in Louisiana during the 1950s -- serves its purpose, but the themes broached by the writer/director are anything but parochial in nature. If there's a weakness in Eve's Bayou, it's that the setting isn't used as effectively as it could be. Placing the film in and around the swamps of Louisiana affords a rich opportunity for atmosphere that isn't utilized. Several throwaway shots of reeds and water establish the location, but do little to imbue the bayou with a life of its own. Nevertheless this is one good movie you shouldn't miss. See more

Draco M Apr 16, 2018 One of a kind movie and cast. I love the originality and the cast did a superb job.

Hagrid W Mar 8, 2018 A lyrical meditation on childhood and memory. The film only gets better the more Lemmons shades the supporting characters , subplots, and supernatural elements . See more

Rey R Feb 24, 2018 A beautifully filmed moody story of a child who goes from innocent to sexual knowledge and knowledge of sin in one summer, seen through the eyes of the child, observing the way her family reacts t the evil in the world. In this way it is much like To Kill A Mockingbird., but the symbolism used is very Biblical in the Genesis sense.Eve's paradise of the bayous invaded by a snake, and Eve uses the a pottery snake to scare her brother afterward. Thus evil temps Eve and she then goes out shopping for apples. Her actions bring about her mother's doubts and her father's demise, thus the cycle of sin begins. A fascinating film. See more

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