Pretty Baby (1978)
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VHS Movie Reviews of Pretty Baby (1978)
Movie Review: Bravo!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a movie that will bring your emotion up to a boil. Yes, a taboo subject, however well done.If you like a good drama that is not a take off of another you watched a week ago then this is it.You will not soon forget this film.Movie Review: censorship warning
Summary: 2 Stars
If they gave Academy Awards for small moments, this film would deserve one for the scene in which Violet is being auctioned off, and the camera closes in on the eyes of the Black piano player, full of silent moral judgment. The print is not so lovely, with more glitches and defects than I've seen in years. Even worse, Paramount has chosen to censor the film, by reframing the scene where Violet is tossed out of Belloc's apartment. It's one thing to be locked out of your house, and quite another to be locked out naked. The impact (and irony and pathos) of the scene is lost along with the nudity. What's ridiculous, though, is that uncensored full-frame prints have been showing on DBS/cable for years. Why censor it now? Last one out of the barn lock the door? So we have a choice between uncensored pan & scan or cropped widescreen. After years of overpriced, underfeatured discs (how many times have they released 'better' versions of Star Trek films?), it looks like Paramount has found yet another way to reveal its failure to understand DVDs. A pity this film wasn't released by MGM.Movie Review: Wonderful and heartbreaking film!
Summary: 5 Stars
For years, I had heard all the controversy about this film and since I'm interested in New Orleans history, I decided to pick this up and see what all the fuss was about. I was surprised to find it different than how others had described it to me. Yes, the nudity was over the top but the story itself was tragic and well done. Violet is a child living in an adult world who doesn't realize prostitution is wrong and follows in her own mother's footsteps. When Bellocq comes to the Storyville district to photograph the prostitutes, he becomes enchanted with Violet's beauty and falls in love with her. I never felt this movie glorified child prostitution. It told the story of the way things were back then. Life now is much different than it was in the early party of the last century and I think this film shows the ugliness of the brothels of that era. Poor Violet having her virginity auctioned and really not knowing any better. When the creepy old guy pays the money, it made me feel sick to my stomach. I guess that was the point of the movie. It made me feel so many things on so many different levels.
All in all, it was a movie that made me think. It was also beautifully shot and very realistic to the time it portrayed. The costumes, the music and the setting were breathtaking. I definitely thought about it after the film was over.
A great film but one that is definitely not for everyone.
Movie Review: Brooke's first catwalk
Summary: 3 Stars
New Orleans...1916, a house of prostitution which raises young girls to become hookers as soon as they turn 12...and Violet (Brooke) wants to become one too. She is "falls in love" with a photographer & marries him. What else happens? Watch & find out.Movie Review: Decadent and Delicious - Beautiful and Bawdy
Summary: 5 Stars
This film is unique in its approach to a subject that is absolutely taboo - child prostitution. Louis Malle's movie presents this little piece of history that was New Orleans' Storyville Red Light District from the perspective of a group of characters who lived the life in the early 1900s and the viewer is somewhat of a voyeur into the bedrooms and activities of some beautiful women, an absolutely stunning child, and a unique Madam. All of this is set against an ethereal background of jazz, Victorian furnishings, and yard animals. I re-watch this movie occasionally and never tire of the dialogue and the languid atmosphere that pervades the movie just like a humid, sunny New Orleans day after the rain has stopped.