EVE'S BAYOU AS A BEAUTIFUL PORTRAIT OF BLACK IDENTITY AT TWENTY YEARS OLD

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“Eve’s Bayou became the most successful independent film of 1997, playing well to both art-house cinephile crowds and more mainstream moviegoers.

Its tender exploration of middle-class black life in rural Louisiana was unique at the time, but it’s also indicative of how the 1990s was an exemplary decade for its depictions of the multiplicity of black identity within pop culture.

There was the uproarious, feminist-tinged Living Single; the sharp-edged noir Deep Cover; and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,a sincere meditation on war that offered the most moving depiction of black fatherhood I’ve witnessed on TV.

Like all of these examples, Eve’s Bayou is blessedly distinct, even as its influence reverberates through shows like Queen Sugar and Beyoncé’s magnum opus, Lemonade...”

~VULTURE 

http://www.vulture.com/2017/11/eves-bayou-is-a-beautiful-portrait-of-black-identity.html 

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