Antonio Fargas, Barbara Steele, Brooke Shields
DVD Release Date: November 18, 2003
Stats: 161 reviews
Pretty Baby" is one of his most beautiful achievements. Telling the story of a lonely photographer's obsession with a precocious twelve-year old prostitute named Violet(Brooke Shields) in New Orleans early in the century. Shields hits all the right notes here. She goes from sexy ...( read more)
I love this film with it's period setting of pre WWI New Orleans and the red light district of Storyville, and the story of some sex workers and a photographer and what happens when their worlds coild and change.
Excluding the acting "skills" of miss Shields even as a child,Pretty Baby hides a deep melancholy Malle would continue exploring from Atlantic City's unfullfilling desires to Damage's forbidden coitus.A great underrated film with a far-fetched emotion of sexual responsibility.
I'd always heard of this movie and the controversy surrounding it since it showed Brooke Shields naked. I wish now that I hadn't watched it. She's too young to think anything like that about, yes, but even then it's just a boring movie and I saw little redeeming value in it.
I am now aware why they say this is the most controversial movie ever made n cinematic history. Almost cringing at times for me, I found it a little hard to take.
This film was controvertial not only because of its subject matter but also because of the full frontal nudity by 11 year old Brooke Shields.
(Before you odd people rush out and buy the DVD, I am reliably informed these scenes have been largely edited out but leaving the basis of the film safe and sound. A good job well done I suspect).
It's a mediocre film but nicely shot.
I watched it purely for its rarity... I've seen better!
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