The Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival will present a retrospective of two groundbreaking Cajun language movies by Glen Pitre, whom American Film magazine called the “father of Cajun Cinema” and Roger Ebert called “a legendary American regional director.”
The films will showcase at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 28, at Citè Des Arts Downtown Lafayette Theater, 109 Vine St., Lafayette.
The two films, “Yellow Fever” (La Fievre Jaune) and “$8.50 a Barrel!” (Huit Piastres Et Demie!), both entirely in Cajun French with English subtitles, broke attendance records in south Louisiana movie theaters back in 1981…