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...York City began the week with a drill involving 600 police, fire fighters and FBI agents responding to a mock attack by terrorists supposedly using deadly VX nerve gas, which Iraq has produced in vast quantities. The following day, in Fairfax, Va., a jury convicted Mir Aimal Kasi, a Pakistani, of assassinating two CIA employees in 1993. The day after that, Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, the "mastermind" of the World Trade Center bombing, and his driver were found guilty in a federal court in New York City...
Samuel L. Jackson produces and stars in this gothic tale of infidelity and voodoo in the Louisiana bayou but graciously hands the story over to the lesser known actresses surrounding him, including Debbi Morgan as a haunted clairvoyant and Jurnee Smollett as his precocious daughter. Director and writer Kasi Lemmons, herself an actress, demonstrates impressive maturity in this dark, hypnotic film...
...Jackson produces and stars in a gothic tale of infidelity and voodoo in the Louisiana bayous, but graciously hands the story to the the film's lesser known actresses, including Debbi Morgan as a clairvoyant haunted by her powers and Jurnee Smollett as his precocious daughter. Director and writer Kasi Lemmons, herself an actress, demonstrates a distinct maturity in this dark, hypnotic tale...
This certainly includes Kasi Lemmons' debut as writer and director. Lemmons, best known for a supporting role in The Silence of the Lambs, shows a remarkable maturity and grace in fashioning a tale that could have easily retread familiar depths...
...film finds humor in tragedy, truth in mysticism and fiction in fact. And when it reaches its powerful conclusion, Kasi Lemmons leaves no simple answers to the questions she poses. In the end nothing is certain, except for the intensity found in the depths of Eve's Bayou...