Eve's Bayou

Very powerful testimony displaying the struggle and emotional baggage black women are forced to bear. This film provides a very unique backdrop set in the culturally turbulent 60s but from a diversion from the typical urban setting instead existing in seemingly its own universe in the bourgeoisie filled Deep South. Yet through these radical economic and environmental surroundings the vices of man, power, affluence, and inevitable corruption rear its head through Louis. Leaving Roz to pick up the pieces of glass destroyed in his wake. All the while she, her sister in law, and daughters all grapple with the very complex and contradictive emotion of your biggest source of “love” simultaneously existing as the biggest source of stress and discomfort. Director Kari Lemmons offers an unfiltered perspective of the power and depth of trauma that exist within the dynamics of a central dysfunctional ego drive male figure and the multiple generations of women he has no regard for. The facade of the gender roles is systematically picked apart. As the roles and responsibilities seemingly placed at the feet of Louis do not fulfill his self serving appetite