Eve's Bayou

USA 1997, 104 minutes
Dir. Kasi Lemmons
Rating: [M]
Genres: Drama

Topics: African-American, Period 1960s, Arthouse.

Feat. Samuel L. Jackson, Lynn Whitfield, Vondie Curtis Hall

Aroview: A sassy, old-fashioned Southern melodrama quite unlike how we've seen it before - this is affluent African-American life in 60s Louisiana, not too far from Peyton Place.

A deceptively straight-forward yarn of how a ten-year-old girl came to 'kill' her father, this rare feature by an African-American woman boasts a radiant all-black cast, including Samuel L. Jackson and Lynn Whitfield ahead of a couple of especially-good child performances.

NZ International Film Festival 1998