Pretty Baby
by Louis Malle
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Actor: Antonio Fargas, Brooke Shields, Frances Faye, Keith Carradine, Susan SarandonDirector: Louis Malle
Brand: Paramount
Cinematographer: Sven Nykvist
Producer: Louis Malle
Writer: Louis Malle
Editor: Suzanne Fenn
Producer: Polly Platt
Writer: Polly Platt
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 110 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-11-18
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Paramount
Movie Reviews of Pretty Baby
Movie Review: Louie Was Louie
Summary: 5 Stars
This week I purchased and viewed Louis Malle's movie "Pretty Baby". I have been viewing all of Malle's movies, next his documentaries.
I learned three things from "Pretty Baby":
1. A whore (I hate that name) can run a successful business: Madame Nell The Whorehouse Owner,
2. It is not only OK but good to fall in love with and bed an underage person: Ernest J. Bellocq The Photographer,
3. You endorse the two above positions our Christian Western Culture Do-Gooder-Know -It- All-No-Nothing's with their overwhelming resources, far reaching organizations, and laws will crush you telling you it is you that is arrogant and stupid, enjoy your lifetime sentence and shame.
I once saw Candice Bergen the wife of the Late Louis Malle asked in an interview what she thought about Louis' movie subjects and the views he expressed. Her answer was, "Louie was Louie".
Summary of Pretty Baby
A prostitutes daughter intrigues a photographer in the red-light district of 1917 new orleans. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 08/24/2004 Starring: Brooke Shields Barbara Steele Run time: 109 minutes Rating: R Director: Louis MalleA semi-scandal upon its release in 1978, this Louis Malle film is set in a turn-of-the-century, New Orleans bordello and focuses on a girl named Violet (then-child actress Brooke Shields) whose imminent twelfth birthday signals her "readiness" to become a career prostitute. Typical of Malle, the outwardly forbidden nature of the story and relationships within are morally obscured by the immediate experiences and unqualified urges of the characters. The little heroine brings a distinctly youthful and innocent view to the milieu, and the introduction of a photographer (Keith Carradine)--who eventually marries Violet--in the brothel carries the suggestion that there is art and beauty to be explored there. Susan Sarandon is beguiling as Violet's mother, who seems to unfold in the cameraman's presence. The film moves a little stiffly, a little slowly, possibly from a heavy emphasis on period art direction and Sven Nykvist's moody if gorgeous photography. --Tom Keogh
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