Pretty Baby Film

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Pretty Baby Film
Supporting actors Frances Faye , Antonio Fargas , Gerrit Graham , Mae Mercer , Diana Scarwid , more… Barbara Steele , Matthew Anton , Seret Scott , Cheryl Markowitz , Susan Manskey , Laura Zimmerman , Miz Mary , Don Hood , Pat Perkins Producers Louis Malle Studio Paramount Pictures Rating R (Restricted) Content advisory Alcohol use , foul language , nudity , sexual content , smoking , more… violence Purchase rights Stream instantly Details Format Prime Video (streaming online video) Devices Available to watch on supported devices
Denis L. Baggi Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2005
Great movies, like great literature, are capable of evoking a definite atmosphere, that of the time and setting of the story, the plot of which, then, almost loses significance. The atmosphere in this case is that of New Orleans at the turn of last century - a slight anachronism here sets the story in 1917 to match the timing of the closure of Storyville, New Orleans's red light district, located roughly between Rampart and Robeson, Iberville and St. Louis, of which nothing remains today. That atmosphere is well expressed by the music, especially that of the pianist in the movie, who is modeled after Jelly Roll Morton, a pioneer jazz pianist and composer, and plays his compositions. For the curious listener, I have listed here some of the works by Jelly Roll and when they get played in the movie: 3:30 - 4:45, Winin's Boy Blues #1 5:05 - 7:21, Tiger's Rag, from the typical NO repertory, including the tiger's roar 24:35 - 25:00, Jelly Roll 26:11 - 27:12, Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say #1 30:10 - 31:30, Winin' Boy Blues #2 38:39 - 43:20, (composing of ) King Porter Stomp, in the background when the Susan Sarandon character poses half-naked for the photographer 54:46 - 56:35, (Original Jelly Roll?) Blues, with clarinet and bass 1:47:15 - 1:49:15 Blues We can add to this the sweet, though perhaps already outdated by 1917, music played by the New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra, with the nice Creole clarinet of Louis Cottrell, who used to play in the Preservation Hall. It is impossible to underestimate the importance of New Orleans in the world of culture, since it can be stated, as Jelly Roll Morton did, that it was for the musical world what Florence of the 14th and 15th century was for the visual arts. The fact that such culture flourished in whorehouses instead at the courts of princes is thus just a reflection of the cultural level of racist American society - which should be proud of its lupanars - which has prevented its own great culture to be accepted by its puritanical obsession, which led to the disaster of prohibition and the present overfilling of prisons for acts, such as possessing marijuana, which are not criminal in most of the civilized world. Beside the music, there are great moments in this movie. Brooke Shields, besides being pretty, has an interesting role, oscillating between her behavior as a future [prostitute] and that of an immature girl, with a lot of innocence - which incidentally is to be found among all those ladies certainly despised by the pseudo-moralistic mainstream, that same one which seems so popular these days in the US. The Madam looks like a true character, a worn out woman with distinguished manners who keeps up with absinthe and cocaine (not without some humor, as when she says: "there are only two things you can do in a rainy day, and I don't like playing cards!"). And I am sure that the character of the distinguished photographer existed in reality, since I remember having seen an exhibition of pictures of such ladies taken in New Orleans at that time (in spite of the howling of some who wanted to label it degrading and censor it). Add to this the great photography, and the intelligence of Louis Malle, who has always used Jazz in a respectful way, as in "Elevator to the Gallows" with the music of Miles Davis and "Murmur of Heart" with that of Charlie Parker - the latter exploring an even more controversial subject than "Pretty Baby", that of an incest with the mother, in a poetic way. The only reason I am not giving this movie five stars is because I would have loved to see more of the Jelly Roll Morton character. One has almost to strain his/her ear to listen to his composing of the masterpiece "King Porter Stomp" while the photographer tries to take pictures of Hattie (Susan Sarandon). Perhaps some viewers may prefer Sarandon's naked tits over Morton's playing, but that's not my case! But on the whole this is a great movie and is to be recommended heartily to everybody, perhaps especially to Americans who generally know close to nothing of the great culture which has been created in the very places their society has systematically despised, by people which are still often considered as an inferior "race" (whatever that means).
Khristine Jackson Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2020
For many decades I wanted to see this movie.. It was rather difficult to find on VHS in "Block-Buster" type stores back in the day.. Second I wasn't aware of the subject matter,,and the setting. Having lived in NOLA on St. Charles street down from writer Ann Rice for many years. I was aware of the Canal street brothel,,that was busted but not the complete history of Storyville. NOLA is well known for "Corruption,Violence,Booze,S*X,Racism and everything French". Apparently the brothel's were shut down due to the Navy base and the Syphilis problem ..that had been spreading around the country. Even in the 1940's I heard a story that the mayors wanted the East coast brothel's shut down because they feared that military personnel , would become infected and spread such ailments to their wive's..? You must remember before 1950 people did not use "jimmies".. I'm trying to be polite..If you catch my drift..?? Well the movie was directed by famed French director Louis Malle"..he is remembered for many films including "The Lover's" in 1958,, "My Dinner with Andre" in 1981..and being the husband of american actress Candice Bergen.. he died in 1995 from Lymphoma at the age of 63. Brooke Shields what an actress.. to play such a part of a s*x worker ..especially in a film where she was in the raw. To be honest Jodie Foster did the same in the movie" The Little girl That Lives down the Lane".. Let's be frank in 2020 . No such movie could be made ..Due to the "Metoo " and the "Sesta/Fosta" nonsense ... that was created by Democrat/Republican Senator's .. Susan Sarandon does a decent job as a washed up mother.. Keith Carradine ..you want to feel sorry for his character ..and Diana Scarwid.. We all know her from "Mommie Dearest".. and Antonio Fargas ... The kids in the movie were so cute, the costumes were spot on and the music .. I really enjoyed it.. The location I have no real idea ..where that house could have been? You would have to find someone who worked on the permit's for the location Or any local's who recall the movie being shot there in 1978..? Honestly the movie was really in ...YOUR face.. It certainly didn't sugar coat.. I can only imagine what Brooke Shields thinks about her performance ..at such a young age. Playing a character in a profession ..that is ridiculed and heckled so much..? I would watch this film again...
Julián Balderas Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2022
nada una película de culto para los seguidores de Brook Shields, es la primera película donde aparece como protagonista y con grandes coestrellas
kboy2008 Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2009
I really liked the story it was well writen and very well acted. They did a good job of bring the past alive, this brothel was not a safe happy place. They start the movie with a nice plesent scene, violet is roaming around with the paino playing and every seems happy but it doesn't take long and this world to be shown in the light and the happness is empty... To really understand this movie one must understand the time it was set in 1917, WWI had been raging for 4 years and everyone's mind set was one of shock and fear no one beleived they lived in a safe world, but go back 5 or 6 years ealery and the mind set was totaly different and ppl were livng in a fantasy world where they beleived they were safe and the world around them was a safe one. Open scene Violet is skiping happly through the brothel she lives in without a care of fear in the world and beleving her world is a safe one, her mother on the other hand was wiser and older and she knew the hell she was living in. I liked the 2 adventures these two ladies took, it made the story more beleiveable and it also made you understand why they mde the choices they made. For example at early point in the movie when Violet's mother wanted to leave and how Violet wouldn't leave, that made total since to me, there was no reason for her to leave let she thought she had everything she wanted she was living in her fanstay pre WWI world. Than when Violet's mother does leave and they begin to shater her world and the cold truth of life in a brothel is revealed to her it makes those parts even more powerful. I liked the parts where the guy was shooting the gun radomly into the air, the part where they auctioned off Violet, and also the part where Violet was in the bath and the old women came up to show her off, and finaly the part where they was thrown out into the streets, thoes were all great parts of the movie the added to show Violet what the real world is like also helped to grow her charecter so at the end when she faces the same choice she had in the begining she knows the dangers of the real world and makes the right choice, and if nothing had happened to shater her world the choice she made wouldn't have made any since. It is a wonderful story the only problem I had with the movie is I didn't really care to have a 12 year old girl running around nude in this movie, yes because of the setting of the movie it wouldn't have made any since not to inculde them I just think they should have found an 18 year old girl that looked like brook shields for a stand in. My second problem with this movie is they were way to easy on the guy who married Violet, he hit, had sex with and threw out a naked 12 year old girl into the streets, he should have either been sent to prison for life or shot by the end of the movie, not just let off with a broken heart. Other than that I really enjoyed this movie
CitizenChampion Reviewed in the United States on September 20, 2015
There was some as it were anticipation with this films initial release.The release date was 1978 with the showing of this film being on HBO.I saw this film then with a particular statement I made then, returning to my memory.I had wondered aloud with my two sisters and mother sitting at the kitchen table.I had wondered why was this particular film an interest at all.Why in fact was there a need to make such a film? Most certainly these were very marginal positions with even concerns being the concerns of perhaps lawmakers and health officials but as an interest of entertainment it was not.This was not entertainment as such but there is something more important than merely this perverse showing is concerned. There is a unmistakable environment that is dirty and unforgiving, it provides for those who inhabit such a world, a deathlike grip of vice and debauchery that "Pretty Baby" witnesses too.The particular community as a result of its "storied" past was ripe with crime,one patron may very well have been killed as a result of a hammer blow to the head.Nell,the Brothels Madam simply wanted to get rid of the body.This was not done as a form of entertainment but as a pleasure derived from a form of cruelty.The conversation's between the women of this House of Prostitution were of a Godless world that cursed the light of day very regularly.This is what you will discover that this is a community that practices voodoo,a form of witchcraft, with the child "Violet" being painted in a ritual associated with the practice of witchcraft.The Negro women who paints violet is in fact recognized as a witch.Nell is potentially more dangerous than merely a Madam.This women did drugs,cocaine was clearly evident with either a cocaine derivative "heroin" or perhaps it was "hashish" ,"opium"(a maleable dark colored tar like substance) also being clearly visible and in use.Crime was a very real problem associated with storyville,la. There was as well an increasing awareness of various diseases like Syphilus that had no cure.and as a result this particular environment flourished.Louisiana politicians had made trips to Amsterdam in an attempt to determine how best to deal with these problems.It was part of the underwriting as to this film though hardly do we know that.. "Pretty Baby" is foremost a story that though sordid even unattractive is in fact too unfriendly.There is much to this pictures attempt to persuade through firstly suggestion. The story escalates in the detrimental environment that a child is being brought up in-from Child Abuse to Corrupting the morals of a minor to the suggestion of extreme cruelty ,being whipped.There are certainly other instances of objectionable material though not as it were in the nude.The attempt to rape the Negro Child by "Violet".The child in one regard is a thoughtless even mindless creature who has not the slightest care.This would in fact support the idea that this is indeed an individual who is not mature nor intelligent."Violet" does not have an education and as a result can not read a note that is left for her by the photographer. This is a personality of a spoiled precocious child.There is further evidence that subject matter associated with Bestiality is indeed present.The child eats the same food and from the same dishes as the food that the cat eats from,and the child chases a salamander across a yard.This type of thought less conduct is symbolic and even ritualistic in nature.The subject of witchcraft will surface again as it concerns these even ritualistic interests. The character as to who "violet" actually is,is merely that this particular performance was no more convincing than the character was in its portrayal.This is truly a politically charged world whereby this film was a cause that would of brought others into harms way,that is "violet" has had a bad effect. This is what this film is partly responsible for, providing society with an influence whereby youngsters are influenced by show offs and the hollywoods of the world only to wish to emulate those that do these things.It should be mentioned that "violet" is not the only child in this house of prostitution.There is a younger girl,younger than "violet" whose mother is indeed a prostitute like "Hattie". There are a number of instances where there is no doubt that the ladies are fully mature and all are as it were fully clothed. I do not see that as a particular concern however "Hattie" played by Susan Saranden has a photo shoot and as a result an attractive upper body session only.These scenes though not full frontal nudity are in fact bare breasted with there being more than a single photo shoot.the breast feeding of"Hattie's" child for example.The photo never went any place else as it concerns "hattie".Violet is something different.The particular scene in question is most certain Child Pornographic."Violet" is nude on a couch and when locked out her backside is clearly in view. I do not consider such an environment as storyville,la to be entertaining.i did not see it as entertainment when first viewed nor is this film any different today as it was then.
swingman Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2022
A very daring movie. Great acting by Brooke Shields
Joseph McGuinness (Ray Ray's Records) Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2022
There was no reason to have her naked in this. Would have been a classic movie without all of that but it loses rewatch value due to the unnecessary shots which should just be edited out
GLH Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2022

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