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Four Portraits Eve's Bayou [In-Person Only]
Thu Feb 24: 7.00pm PDT
$13 General Admission
$10 Student/Child/Senior
$7 Member
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Kasi Lemmons
US
1997
1h 49m
Series - Four Portraits: Films by African American Women Directors
About
Telling her story through ten-year-old Eve (Jurnee Smollett), Kasi Lemmonss ambitious independent production uses a pastiche of images, employed like stanzas of poetry, to create a haunting portrait of the upwardly mobile and morally complex Batistes of Louisiana.
Louis Batiste (Samuel L. Jackson), a married doctor who is well-respected in his community, is an unrepentant womanizer. Eve, his youngest daughter, witnesses one instance of his infidelity, but her fathers healing powers and the mythology of his reputation conflict with what shes seen and confuse her. Eve is precociously intelligent, brimming with provocative questions, but she is still too young to grasp the risks and consequences of her knowledge.
Eves sister Mozelle (Debbi Morgan) is another kind of healer, with a deep, intuitive faith in the spiritual world. Her faith influences her little sister, and Eve begins to embrace voodoo as a place where she might be able to find some clarity about the mysteries and secrets of her family.
Eves Bayou is a deeply poetic soujourn through moss-draped Louisiana landscapes. But its setting has an ineffable quality to it, positioning Eves Bayou as a story that takes place somewhere between the material and spiritual worlds, where truth and its perception can change shape depending on the light of day.
(Kasi Lemmons, US, 1997, 109 min, in English)
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1515 12th Ave.
Seattle, WA 98122
United States
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