Mozelle's gift also brings her into direct conflict with Elzora, a fortune teller and possible witch with similar abilities. Eve, who also has the Spiritual gift of sight, has a premonitory dream shortly before an accident occurs, claiming Mozelle's third husband. Throughout the duration of the film, Eve often seeks refuge with her Aunt Mozelle, who works as a Hoodoo Practitioner with a neighborhood reputation as "The Black Widow". Roz eventually begins to suspect her husband's infidelity, prompting conflict between the two as well. Cisely comes into conflict with both her sister and mother as she enters puberty and tries to navigate the difficult transition to adulthood, particularly with regard to her appearance and sexuality.
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Eve's relationship with her parents becomes more strained as she discovers more evidence of her father's serial infidelity. The summer quickly becomes a chaotic and stressful one for the Batiste family. The unreliability of memory and observation remain important themes throughout the film.
However, Cisely (Good), who has a very affectionate relationship with her father, convinces Eve that she misinterpreted an innocent moment. One night after a raucous party, Eve accidentally witnesses her father having sex with Matty Mereaux (Carson), a family friend. Their parents are Roz and Louis, a well-respected doctor in Louisiana's African American community who claims descent from the French aristocrat who founded the town of Eve's Bayou. Plot Įve Batiste (Smollett), a 10-year-old girl, lives in a prosperous Creole-American community in Louisiana with her younger brother Poe and her older sister Cisely in the 1960s. A 116-minute director's cut of the film was made a part of The Criterion Collection on October 25, 2022. 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". The film grossed $14 million domestically on a budget of $4 million, making it the most commercially successful independent film of 1997.
The film premiered at the 1997 Toronto International Film Festival and was released in theaters on November 7, 1997. 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. Eve's Bayou is a 1997 American Southern Gothic drama film written and directed by Kasi Lemmons, who made her directorial debut with this film.
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