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Event Date as Display String:

Monday, January 20, 2020, 7:00pm - 8:50pm

Location:

Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge

URL:

https://harvardfilmarchive.org/calendar/eves-bayou

Event Description:

The debut feature of Harriet director Kasi Lemmons, "Eve's Bayou" is a
haunting coming-of-age story and meditation on the power of memory to
both heal and reopen lasting wounds. Movingly conjuring a Louisiana
childhood steeped in local culture and family lore, "Eve's Bayou"
follows the awakening of young girl as she comes to realize that her
father is not the man and hero she once believed. Played with fiery
intensity by eleven-year old Jurnee Smollett, Eve finds the courage to
confront the adults who have sheltered her while trying to understand
the dark secrets that they impart. Produced by Samuel L. Jackson — who
delivers an electrifying performance as Eve's profligately adulterous
father — "Eve's Bayou" is today recognized as a classic of black
cinema. Although the film received almost universal critical praise,
and despite Kasi Lemmons' path-breaking work as an African American
woman director, "Eve's Bayou" was completely overlooked by the Oscars
and faded into obscurity until its recent rediscovery, helped in part
by its 2018 selection by the Library of Congress' National Film
Registry.

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Monday, January 20, 2020 - 19:00 to 20:50

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