La baia di Eva

Titolo originale: Eve's Bayou

1997
R
1h 48min

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7,2/10

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Samuel L. Jackson, Debbi Morgan, and Lynn Whitfield in La baia di Eva (1997)

What did little Eve see and how will it haunt her? Husband, father and womanizer Louis Batiste is the head of an affluent family, but it's the women who rule this gothic world of secrets, lies and mystic forces.

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Cosa ha visto la piccola Eva e in che modo la perseguiterà? Marito, padre e donnaiolo Louis Batiste è il capo di una famiglia benestante, ma sono le donne a governare questo mondo gotico di ... Leggi tuttoCosa ha visto la piccola Eva e in che modo la perseguiterà? Marito, padre e donnaiolo Louis Batiste è il capo di una famiglia benestante, ma sono le donne a governare questo mondo gotico di segreti, bugie e forze mistiche.Cosa ha visto la piccola Eva e in che modo la perseguiterà? Marito, padre e donnaiolo Louis Batiste è il capo di una famiglia benestante, ma sono le donne a governare questo mondo gotico di segreti, bugie e forze mistiche.

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VALUTAZIONE IMDb

7,2/10

11.954

LA TUA VALUTAZIONE

Vedi le informazioni sulla produzione su IMDbPro

Premi
- 12 vittorie e 17 candidature

Quiz
According to writer and director Kasi Lemmons, her cut differed greatly from the final cut released to theaters, which eliminated a major character from the movie.

Blooper
After the Batiste family learns with relief that the boy who was hit by the bus wasn't Poe and Mrs. Batiste tells Eve to go upstairs and tell Cisely that they can all go outside, a boom mic is visible at the top of the frame.

Citazioni
Mozelle Batiste Delacroix: Life is filled with goodbyes, Eve, a million goodbyes, and it hurts every time. Sometimes, I feel like I've lost so much, I have to find new things to lose. All I know is, there must be a divine point to it all, and it's just over my head. That when we die, it will all come clear. And then we'll say, "So that was the damn point." And sometimes, I think there's no point at all, and maybe that's the point. All I know is most people's lives are a great disappointment to them and no one leaves this earth without feeling terrible pain. And if there is no divine explanation at the end of it all, well... that's sad.

Versioni alternative
The Criterion Collection Blu-ray release includes both the theatrical cut (running 108 minutes 45 seconds) and the director's cut (running 115 minutes 33 seconds).

Connessioni
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Mad City/Bean/Starship Troopers/Eve's Bayou/The Wings of the Dove (1997)

Colonne sonore
A Child With The Blues
Written by Curtis Mayfield
Performed by Erykah Badu

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10/10

Stunning Imagery, Haunting Beauty

"MEMORY IS A SELECTION OF IMAGES, SOME ELUSIVE, OTHERS PRINTED INDELIBLY ON THE BRAIN. THE SUMMER I KILLED MY FATHER, I WAS 10 YEARS OLD"

With those shocking opening frames from the movie, 'Eve's Bayou'(1997), I was hooked from start go.

'Eve's Bayou' is an anomaly. It has achieved a rare distinction of excellence in all departments of film making; from the direction to the writing, from the acting to the cinematography.

Here was a film not content with telling a tale of nostalgic retrospection. Instead, it shocked the senses of the unsuspecting viewers with an eerie collage of imagery, underscoring the chilling suspense with an undercurrent of tumultuous emotion (jealousy, loss and sadness; anger, vengeance and guilt) all culminating into the inevitable foreshadowed tragedy.

But of course, this is far too distinguished a film to present an easy resolution. From there spring forth the painful revelation on the very essence of memory and the perception of truth, distilled and faceted with the passage of time. A valuable lesson indeed.

Poetic and shadowy, the dream-like moods sustained throughout this poignant film is its over-riding strength. For here was a film which sights and sound has transcended the mere plot convention of its humble genre origins. Thankfully, the film turned out the better for it. Coupled with the celebrated fact that this was the product of a first time director(Kasi Lemmons), one can't help but feel the divine intervention bestowed upon this film to make it such an magically entrancing experience.

Alongside 'Shawshank Redemption' and 'The Sweet Hereafter', 'Eve's Bayou' certainly ranks as one of the most hauntingly beautiful piece of cinema ever committed to film.