Fresh
Subplots are woven stealthily into the story, taking the pressure off the central drama, allowing it to be affecting rather than melodramatic, and heightening the atmosphere of the lush Louisiana setting.
Lisa Alspector, Chicago Reader
Eve's Bayou
The secrets that hold us together can also tear us apart.
1997 · 1h 49m · R
Drama
Directed by
Kasi Lemmons
Overview
Summer heats up in rural Louisiana beside Eve’s Bayou, 1962, as the Batiste family tries to survive the secrets they’ve kept and the betrayals they’ve endured.
Director and cast
- Kasi Lemmons Director
- Samuel L. Jackson as Louis Batiste
- Jurnee Smollett as Roz Batiste
- Meagan Good as Roz Batiste
- Lynn Whitfield as Roz Batiste
- Lisa Nicole Carson as Matty Mereaux
- Diahann Carroll as Elzora
- Roger Guenveur Smith as Lenny Mereaux
- Debbi Morgan as Mozelle Batiste Delacroix
- Victoria Rowell as Stevie Hobbs
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
80%
Tomatometer
Fresh
A sparkling directorial debut.
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
Fresh
An intensely emotional drama that mixes elements of Southern Gothic with the kinds of characters and tensions that prevail in the plays of Southern writers like Tennessee Williams.
Emanuel Levy, Variety
Rotten
A gothic and, for better or worse, poetic memoir about a young girl and her family of Creole aristocrats.
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Rotten
In Eve's Bayou, Tennessee goes to Louisiana, and finds a familiar home. Tennessee Williams, that is.
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail
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