Lt. Dave Robicheaux, a detective in New Iberia, Louisiana, is trying to link the murder of a local hooker to New Orleans mobster Julie (Baby Feet) Balboni, who is co-producer of a Civil War film. At the same time, after Elrod Sykes, the star of the film, reports finding another corpse in the Atchafalaya Swamp near the movie set, Robicheaux starts another investigation, believing the corpse to be the remains of a black man who he saw being murdered 35 years before.
Acting
Tommy Lee Jones doing his most Tommy Lee Jones.
Cinematography
The bayou looks like it wants to swallow everyone whole.
Director
Bertrand Tavernier
Tommy Lee Jones
Dave Robicheaux
John Goodman
Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni
Peter Sarsgaard
Elrod Sykes
Mary Steenburgen
Bootsie Robicheaux
Kelly Macdonald
Kelly Drummond
Justina Machado
Rosie Gomez
Ned Beatty
Twinky LeMoyne
James Gammon
Ben Hebert
Pruitt Taylor Vince
Lou Girard
Levon Helm
General John Bell Hood
Buddy Guy
Sam 'Hogman' Patin
Julio Cesar Cedillo
Cholo Manelli
Bernard Hocke
Murphy Doucet
John Sayles
Michael Goldman
Gary Grubbs
Sheriff
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on James Lee Burke's sixth Dave Robicheaux novel; Tommy Lee Jones was so committed to the role he reportedly did his own bayou stunts, including nearly drowning.
Director Bertrand Tavernier was a legendary French filmmaker making his only American film — his European sensibility gives this Louisiana noir an oddly dreamlike, unhurried quality that divided critics.
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