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Pretty Baby (5-Apr-1978)
Director: Louis Malle Writers: Louis Malle; Polly Platt Keywords: Drama, Prostitution, New Orleans
REVIEWS Review by anonymous (posted on 5-Jun-2006) Truly, stunningly awful film on every
possible level -- script, acting, directing, camera work,
sound, lighting. There were a few normally somewhat competent actors
(Sarandon, Carradine), but they seem so ashamed to be mouthing the
beyond-banal, laughable dialogue that they appear to have been struck
wooden-stiff with embarrasment. (For a similar phenomenon, see
Nicholson in "Anger Management" -- phoning it in all the way to the
bank. Hard to believe that Louis Malle, who has done fine work
(Atlantic City), could have dashed off something so thorougly
appalling. One cannot escape the suspicion that the entire reason the
film was made was so Malle, or perhaps a deep-pockets producer, could
have some time on the sound-stage with a fawn-like, naked Brooke
Shields. I doubt this film could be made today, given the stringent
"child pornography" standards promulgated during the Clinton years. The
scene where Brookie essentially rapes a young pickaninny alone would
get a novice filmmaker 10 years in the slammer - not to mention the
scene where she is auctioned off to the highest bidder. In any case,
it's so bad, it's not even a hoot to watch; it's just simply among the
elite few very worst films I've ever seen.
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