Pretty Baby
In 1917, in the red-light district of New Orleans, they called her "Pretty Baby"
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DVD-R Details
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: December 1, 2020
- Originally Released: 1978
- Label: Paramount Home Ent
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Brooke Shields, Keith Carradine & Susan Sarandon | |
Performer: | Diana Scarwid, Antonio Fargas, Gerrit Graham, Mae Mercer & Frances Faye | |
Directed by | Louis Malle | |
Edited by | Suzanne Baron | |
Screenwriting by | Polly Platt | |
Composition by | Jerry Wexler | |
Story by | Polly Platt & Louis Malle | |
Produced by | Louis Malle | |
Director of Photography: | Sven Nykvist |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/4 --
Louis Malle's Pretty Baby is a pleasant surprise: After all the controversy and scandal surrounding its production, it turns out to be a good-hearted, good-looking, quietly elegiac movie.
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Chicago Sun-Times
The story highlights are confined within a narrow range of ho-hum dramatization.
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Variety
In a large sense, Pretty Baby's style makes its own statements; yet the aesthetic appeal of what we are shown remains strangely inconsistent with much of the film's content.
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Sojourner
...The film is handsome...
Variety
Despite the scandalised yelps about child pornography, a film of disarmingly subversive innocence.
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Time Out
Pretty Baby is a radically subversive product, presented in an elegant and precious packaging. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
The most imaginative, most intelligent, and most original film of the year to date.
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New York Times
Product Description:
Director Louis Malle tackled a social taboo and made 12-year-old Brooke Shields a star with this controversial examination of child prostitution in turn-of-the-century New Orleans. Violet (Shields) is the daughter of a prostitute (Susan Sarandon) who works at one of the brothels in New Orleans' legendary red-light district, Storyville. One day photographer Ernest Bellocq (Keith Carradine) arrives at the brothel to take photos of the prostitutes and becomes fascinated with Violet, who is fast approaching her 12th birthday and a subsequent initiation into prostitution. When her mother moves to St. Louis in search of marriage and respectability, Violet determines to marry the much older Bellocq. Malle infuses the potentially lurid subject matter with a lyrical beauty that brings humanity to his characters and story, with the assistance of a sensitive script by Polly Platt and superb cinematography by Sven Nykvist.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 32,527
- UPC: 032429352460
- Shipping Weight: 0.19/lbs (approx)
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