Meagan Good as Cisely Batiste & Jurnee Smollett as Eve Batiste in Eve's Bayou (Film, 1997).
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Lynn Whitfield as Roz Batiste in Eve’s Bayou (1997)
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Celebrating Kasi Lemmons!
“Perseverance is what I tell my students. It's important that you keep your dream alive, because you're going to encounter a lot of obstacles, and no one is going to dream big for you. You have to have the fortitude and the resilience to stick with your own dreams. That can be hard.”
Harriet (2019)
"It’s one of the rare movies that joins the radical subjectivity of a visionary to the manifold and complex forces of the times, that fuses its story with the story of the writing of history itself, that unites the concepts of political and cultural freedom, that acknowledges the historical centrality of armed self-defense as a practical necessity and a moral right."
Read more in The New Yorker's The Stunning Achievement of Kasi Lemmons’s “Harriet”.
Talk to Me (2007)
"I’ve got to say, I’ve never really made a film or any art, written a script or anything, for a message. I’ve never tried to deliver a message. I think that what we’re all struggling with as artists is just being understood."
Read more in aalbc.com's The “Talk to Me” Interview.
Eve’s Bayou (1997)
"Her writing and directorial debut, Eve’s Bayou, is an unsettling and beautiful story about one Louisiana family’s series of revelations: It’s complex, mystical, and doesn’t easily lend itself to categorical definition."
Read more in The Atlantic's THIRD ACT:THE JOURNEY OF A HOLLYWOOD DIRECTOR.
Explore Lemmons's filmograph on MUBI:
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Over the course of a long, hot Louisiana summer, a 10-year-old girl, Eve Batiste, discovers that her family's affluent existence is merely a facade. The philandering of her suave doctor father, Louis, creates a rift, throwing Eve's mother, Roz, and teenage sister Cisely into emotional turmoil. Eve, though, manages to find some solace with her quirky psychic aunt, Mozelle. (Starring Jurnee Smollett, Jake Smollett, Meagan Good, Debbi Morgan, Lynn Whitfield, Diahann Carroll, Lisa Nicole Carson, Samuel L. Jackson, and Tamara Tunie)
Released November 7, 1997
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