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Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Nice effects though.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Seeing page after page of 10 star reviews of Eve's Bayou, I felt compelled to add my $.02. Just watched this film last night, and generally thought is was very good. The filmmakers stuck with and developed the characters well. The opening party scene was a bit of a mish-mash of faces, so it took a while to suss out who was who, but as the film went on, that got worked out.Before writing a few criticisms, let me say that one thing I liked about the film was that it refrained from becoming a 'white/bad, black/good' story. In fact, I don't recall a single white face throughout, nor any dialog about race relations. That was refreshing.Now, what I didn't like. First: what the heck was with the wardrobes and make-up? Not only during the original party scene, but throughout the entire movie, the women are dressed up like they're going to a photo shoot or prom. Totally unrealistic/overly glam. Next: the hokiness of some of the dialog. After the family tragedy, for example, rather than hug Eve and let her cry, Aunt Mozel relates some abstract dream she just had. Ugh. The kid's 10, she just lost her father, and you're telling parables?Finally: I hated the ending. The father's letter reveals that he may have been innocent of his older daughter's accusation that he made a sexual advance toward her. When confronted by Eve, the best the older daughter can come up with is, "I can't remember." Are you kidding me? The sisters then dunk the father's letter in the swamp, forever to be unseen by its intended recipient, Mozel.Overall, good movie. Perfect? no.

LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!!!!!One of my ALL TIME favorite movies ever made. Brilliant acting by the whole cast. Eve's Bayou is a spectacular movie. The color and scenery is wonderful and the people are elegant and troubled. Even the character's names stir up visions of dark swamp water and sultry heat. The story is told and seen through the eyes of little Eve Batiste played by a wonderful young actress named Jurnee Smollett. Eve takes us deep into her world which is filled with colorful characters and complex personalities.Diahann Carroll is fabulous as the old fortune teller Elzora with her insane laughter. Debbi Morgan as Aunt Mozelle Batiste Delacroix is something to behold. Aunt Mozelle has promised her family that she will not use her "second sight" to tell fortunes, but neighbors won't let her keep her promise. They seek her out to find missing husbands anyway. Lynn Whitfied as the manor born wife is beautiful and poised as she tries to keep her family together in spite of her wandering husband (Samuel L. Jackson). Jackson is very sexy in this movie and his character has roving eyes as well as roving hands that don't stop even when he is caught in a compromising position by his youngest daughter, Eve. This starts a set of events that lead to the total destruction of an already deeply troubled family.Although this movie did not make history at the box office my guess is that it will become a cult classic. Years from now this movie will be viewed for what it is, a brilliantly produced film. You can literally feel the Louisiana heat from Eve's Bayou. danceability. Amsterdam

This film is now showing on cable here in Australia, and is a far better than average offering.Written and directed by Kasi Lemmons, the film is a powerful family drama set in the sixties in the south of the USA. It stars Samuel L Jackson as a small town doctor with a wandering eye. The story is told from the viewpoint of his middle child, Eve, wonderfully played by Jurnee Smollett, who sees her middle-class family life threatened by her father's infidelities.No tale set in a bayou village could exist without references to black magic and voodoo, and this film also has them as a rather central part of the plot. But these elements are handled skilfully and believably, and heighten the tension that develops.One of the interesting tools used by Lemmons is to tell and retell a story from different characters' perspectives, asking the viewer to determine which is more truthful, and indeed, whether the truth is paramount.Jackson gives a sparkling performance as Dr Louis Batiste, a man of warmth and generosity who is well regarded by the local community that he serves. His family is seemingly a happy and close one, until the children begin to question some of the adult behaviour they witness.Jurnee Smollett's Eve is the main protagonist around whom much of the story is centred, and she effortlessly moves back and forth between being a precocious brat and a young woman with powerful emotions. The rest of the cast is also very good, including a voluptuous Lisa Nicole Carson as the temptress Mattie Mereaux, and Diahann Carroll as a bayou witch.This film moves along at a good pace and is a little more than you might expect.

"Eve's Bayou" is perfect down to the last detail, but lovers of popcorn movies may pass "Eve's Bayou" without notice. The film is, against all odds, hopeful even while quietly stirring outrage. It's a deceptively passive movie that quietly moves mountains behind the scenes. Under the skillful hand of writer-director Kasi Lemmons, layers are revealed -- the pain of loss, the wrath of secrets , the je ne sais quoi of contented family life -- all while building up to a shattering conclusion, Lemmons' movie is both outrageously schematic and powerfully humanist. "Eve's Bayou" is a marvel of character-driven drama that no serious film-goer should miss.