7/10/2023 0 Comments Spoken word all night beyonce![]() ![]() ![]() Lemonade’s post-Katrina imagery, Southern Gothic sentiment and audio-visual palette of black spiritualism are specific – and specifically black. A more apt comparison, however, might be to that of Kasi Lemmons, who directed the 1997 film Eve’s Bayou, a swampy melodrama that shares Lemonade’s interest in the ephemeral, from voodoo to tribalism to witchcraft. ![]() Many have been quick to compare Lemonade’s hushed voiceover and emphasis on nature to the work of arthouse director Terrence Malick. “Your mother is a woman and women like her cannot be contained,” whispers Beyoncé’s voiceover in a spoken word interlude (riffing on Warsan Shire’s “ how to wear your mother’s lipstick”).
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