Eve's Bayou . Newcity Chicago . 11-10-97

Eve's Bayou

DIRECTED BY: Kasi Lemmons

REVIEWED: 11-10-97

"Eve's Bayou," based on first-time director Kasi Lemmons' own script, is a dark and complicated family drama, set in the Louisiana bayou in the summer of 1962, and told from the perspective of 10-year-old Eve Batiste. The Batistes are one of Louisiana's most prosperous black families, and Eve's father, Louis (Samuel L. Jackson) is known for "fixing things" all around the town, even while the family might use a little fixing of its own. While her mother, Roz (Lynn Whitfield) is a keeper of the family heritage, little Eve feels more of an affinity toward her aunt Mozelle (Debbi Morgan), who believes that intuition and things supernatural may hold the key to the family's secrets that she will discover over the course of a summer. The performances are all fine, and there's an accomplished swelter to Lemmon's humid world.

--Ray Pride

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