Our Flick of the Week is “Eve’s Bayou,” a quiet achievement that deserves to be highlighted in a season of oversized action pictures. No capsizing boats, no flubber — instead, an uncommonly sensitive story of the fears and emotional traumas suffered by a 10-year-old girl growing up in the Louisiana countryside with a philandering father.
Samuel L. Jackson, in a tough role to play, is a standout as a doctor, a leading light of his village and father of three young children, who flaunts his mistress (Lynn Whitfield) in everyone’s face and unknowingly embraces her in front of his little girl.
What follows is a non-sensationalized view of adult behavior as seen through the eyes of a child. This sort of story is a tradition of long-standing in the French cinema, where children so often function as the measure of adults.
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The result is a picture that shocks with a reminder that the eyes of our offspring are always upon us. I think this film is suitable for an older teen-age audience. Rated R. (star) (star) (star) 1/2