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Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: There has never been a film quite like Kasi Lemmons' shimmering Eve's Bayou. Read more
Lisa Alspector, Chicago Reader: Subplots are woven stealthily into the story, taking the pressure off the central drama, allowing it to be affecting rather than melodramatic, and heightening the atmosphere of the lush Louisiana setting. Read more
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Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: In Eve's Bayou, Tennessee goes to Louisiana, and finds a familiar home. Tennessee Williams, that is. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: A sparkling directorial debut. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: For the viewer, it is a reminder that sometimes films can venture into the realms of poetry and dreams. Read more
Cynthia Joyce, Salon.com: It would be a shame if Eve's Bayou, Kasi Lemmons' beautiful first feature film, gets pigeonholed as a "black" movie just because it has no white characters. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: A gothic and, for better or worse, poetic memoir about a young girl and her family of Creole aristocrats. Read more
Time Out: Writer/director Kasi Lemmons shows sweet judgment here, doesn't caricature or demonise the errant father, and elicits a host of nuanced performances from women of all ages. Read more
Emanuel Levy, Variety: An intensely emotional drama that mixes elements of Southern Gothic with the kinds of characters and tensions that prevail in the plays of Southern writers like Tennessee Williams. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: A movie unto itself, a rousing, original yarn about family life that includes everyone. Read more