As a result Pretty Baby is not the film you think it is. His films are often so leftfield that the normal rules and mores don’t seem to apply – yet he could still attract the odd obscenity lawsuit (for The Lovers). It’s the work of French new wave (ish) director Louis Malle ( Viva Maria!/ Atlantic City), an individual not afraid to take difficult, at times taboo subjects and approach them in a highly idiosyncratic way that no one else on earth would, or could. Obviously it could never be made today, but should it have been made even then? There’s also a couple of pretty uncomfortable nude scenes of a prepubescent Brooke, and at one point she marries an adult…in a church. Abandoned by her prostitute mother (Susan Sarandon) she is at one point auctioned off to the highest bidder for the right to deflower her. Made in 1978, it features an 11 year old Brooke Shields as Violet, a child prostitute growing up in a 1917 New Orleans brothel. In 2020 Pretty Baby is a very difficult film to review.
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