Pretty Baby at the VMFA
Pretty Baby this Fri November 19, 2010 6:30–9PM at the VMFA (tickets $7 (VMFA members $5). 1978 (rated R, 109 minutes) Starring Brooke Shields, Keith Carradine, Susan Sarandon. Directed by Louis Malle. In 1917 New Orleans, photographer E. J. Bellocq chose prostitutes of the red-light district as his subjects: the famed Storyville Portraits. In this […]
Pretty Baby this Fri November 19, 2010 6:30–9PM at the VMFA (tickets $7 (VMFA members $5). 1978 (rated R, 109 minutes) Starring Brooke Shields, Keith Carradine, Susan Sarandon. Directed by Louis Malle.
In 1917 New Orleans, photographer E. J. Bellocq chose prostitutes of the red-light district as his subjects: the famed Storyville Portraits. In this fact-based movie, a 12-year-old brothel resident (Shields) naively enchants Bellocq (Carradine) until her mother (Sarandon) returns to claim her. French director Louis Malle’s level-headed treatment of a taboo subject has created a film of humanity and beauty. Master cinematographer Sven Nykvist etches an elegant visual evocation of times past and innocence lost.
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