Pretty Baby

Pretty Baby

  • Director: Louis Malle
  • Writer: Polly Platt,Louis Malle
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: English
  • Release date: April 5, 1978
  • Sound mix: Mono
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Niña bonita
  • Pretty Baby is a feature film directed by Louis Malle and starring Brooke Shields and Keith Carradine.
    The film tells the life experience of a little girl, Violet.

    Details

    • Release date April 5, 1978
    • Filming locations Columns Hotel - 3811 St Charles Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
    • Production companies Paramount Pictures

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $5,786,368

    Gross worldwide

    $5,786,368

    Movie reviews

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    • By Conrad 2022-04-07 09:01:08

      The old thinking was broken by him

      Mother and child incest, rape, suicide, hanging, child prostitutes, Mahler always dealt with subjects that made people jump around, and dared to challenge the limits of morality. When Brooke Xiaosi saw the red, all the men and women fell into a listless state, as if they had lost their virginity. Swan's photography is fantastic. Of course it is also a great example of body photography.

      The whole is a photo album of activities (Bellocq (1873–1949) has a real person), through which he...

    • By Daniella 2022-04-07 09:01:08

      A few points that require cultural background

      1. On the first night of the auction, Violet was carried out in blue veil, and the virgin was dressed as the Virgin Mary. On the one hand, in the eyes of the photographer, she was a prostitute but as pure as the Virgin. The director, on the other hand, may be mourning the plight of religion in the Gilded Age of lavish goldsmiths - the Virgin can only appear in a farce in the form of a prostitute. 2. On the first night of the auction, when the men were bidding, the camera was frozen on the...

    • By Yessenia 2022-04-07 09:01:08

      The film that was not too coldly borrowed by this killer

      Have seen this killer not too cold, two versions of Lolita. I think the little loli in this film is the most innocent girl. This killer's not too cold love is too heavy, Lolita is purely an old man's lust, and little girl's innocence is left, only this version of the little Loli shows innocence everywhere. The film is well-made and meticulous, and naturally not pretentious. The scene where Zi was robbed of milk by a kitten while eating breakfast is really relaxing and humorous, which shows the...

    • By Russ 2022-04-07 08:01:02

      Pretty Baby

      War is what they talk about after dinner; war has nothing to do with them
      Black people just play the piano and do chores, white people use their bodies to pursue empty luxury, how ironic that what

      they pursue can only turn into ashes, only to realize that their numb life is not Happiness; but in their eyes it is only exploited in exchange for a moment of satisfaction

      She imitates the tone of an adult and imitates the behavior of an adult, but all she needs is the love...

    • By Roderick 2022-04-07 08:01:02

      Brooke Shields and Susan Sarandon

      The 13-year-old Bo Ji Xiaosi is full at three o'clock. The director is too good. You must have been scolded badly back then~ Bo Ji Xiaosi's parents feel that Violet is so pitiful, and the poor can't choose the environment in which she grew up, but can only suffer Make music in the middle, go with the flow. Adolescent girl rebellion and childishness blend convincingly. The actor who plays Bellocq has such gentle eyes, and he is still rational. Violet is always a child. What she needs most...

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    • By Jacynthe 2022-04-12 09:01:11

      Louis Malle, who first set foot on the American mainland, seems to have a very unstable focus. Except for the charming and tender face of Brooke Shields, the whole film has a kind of patchwork and nondescript feeling from the background to the setting. Coupled with the theme of brothel, it gives people a sense of flashy and artificial. The last time I had this feeling may have to be traced back to watching "Shanghai Inhuman Prostitution House" in high school. ....

    • By Hermina 2022-04-12 09:01:11

      The victory of Brooke Shields. The triumph of art. Black man playing the piano. Belloc of photography, who made prostitutes into angels. A bird flew when everyone gathered at the table, reminiscent of bats flying in among lovers. The whole film is a girl's life, just a life, with no beginning and no end. Shut down in the train station girl's face. In the future, who...

    • By Heath 2022-04-11 09:01:07

      I saw Catherine Deneuve in Daytime Beauty before, she was beautiful and stunning. Now after watching Liewa turn, I can no longer remember what Deneuve looks like, and my mind is full of Brooke...

    • By Oma 2022-04-11 09:01:07

      She was coddled, willful, rebellious and resisted, but she failed to resist her own destiny, just like Brooke Xiaosi who always left this girly face to others. The female fans she saw in "Friends" as an adult have experienced how many other people's choreography and then become so...

    • By Darius 2022-04-11 09:01:07

      I like the way she looks at the camera helplessly in a dress with a bow in the last shot of the film, she is still a child after...

    Movie plot

    The story takes place in a brothel in New Orleans. World War I is approaching, and the situation is turbulent. Only in this brothel, everything is proceeding in an orderly manner as usual. 12-year-old Violet (Broke Shields) lives with her mother Heidi (Susan Sarandon) and her younger brother. For her, the only big thing recently is her virginity that is about to be auctioned off.
    As a photographer for the brothel, Bellock (Keith...
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    Movie quotes

    • Violet: You think of me as a child.

    • Violet: Madame Nell says there's something wrong with you, that you're a cream puff or something. She says you're pathetic, missing all the fun in life.

      Bellocq: Perhaps Madame Nell is imagining she knows more than she does. Do you think she's having fun?

      Violet: She's as happy as anybody. Are the afraid you'll get the little casino? The clap?

      Bellocq: No.

      Violet: Well, why, then?

      Bellocq: Do I ask you questions? I don't have to explain myself to a child.

      Violet: I am not a child!

    • Bellocq: [about Violet] What will become of her now?

      Nell: What's going on with you? You don't have to worry about her. She's made a lot of money. She can do as she likes.

      Bellocq: She's only twelve. She's completely alone.

      Nell: Bellocq, you're in love with her.

      Bellocq: Don't be absurd.

      Nell: I've seen it a thousand times. I am old, and I know one thing - life is very long.