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5 de abr. de 1978 · Pretty Baby: Directed by Louis Malle. With Brooke Shields, Keith Carradine, Susan Sarandon, Frances Faye. A preteen girl lives as a prostitute in New Orleans in 1917.
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Pretty Baby - Menina Bonita é um filme dirigido por Louis Malle com Brooke Shields, Keith Carradine. Sinopse: A filha de uma prostituta é criada em um bordel, onde cuida do seu irmão e se ...
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In 1917, during the final months of legal prostitution in Storyville, the red-light district of New Orleans, Louisiana, Hattie is a prostitute working at an elegant brothel run by the elderly, cocaine-addicted Madame Nell. Hattie has given birth to a baby boy, and has a 12-year-old daughter, Violet, who lives in the house. When photographer Ernest ...
Development
Screenwriter Polly Platt developed the idea for the film after meeting with Louis Malle and learning of his love of New Orleans jazz music, which was an integral part of the Storyville red-light district in the city in the early-twentieth century.: 129–130 Platt based the screenplay on the life of a young girl who was forced into prostitution by her mother, which was recounted in historian Al Rose's 1974 book Storyville, New Orleans: Being an Authentic Illustrated Account of the Notorious Red...
Casting
Following her acclaimed performance as a child prostitute in Taxi Driver (1976), the studio was keen on casting Jodie Foster as Violet. However, Malle rejected the idea as he thought the role should be played by a 12-year-old only, and Foster was 14. Brooke Shields, a child model who had made her film debut the year before in Alice, Sweet Alice (1976), met with Malle and the film's screenwriter, Polly Platt. She described her audition as consisting merely of a conversation with the two, in wh...
Filming
Pretty Baby was shot on location in New Orleans over a period of four months in 1977.Due to its controversial subject matter, the production stated they were "being very cautious because of the nature of the material and ... following all the rules aimed at safeguarding child performers: teachers, psychological testing, parental cooperation and so forth." Screenwriter Polly Platt stated that Malle insisted on continuous rehearsals throughout the shoot, which frustrated much of the cast and cr...
ABC Records released a soundtrack of the film's ragtime score, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adaptation Scorein the "Adaptation Score" category.
Marketing
Despite Malle's concerted effort to make the film sanitized of explicit sex, it received significant salacious pre-publicity leading up to its release, including a lengthy article by Joan Goodman in New York Magazine, which described it as "Lolita, only in period costume and much more explicit.": 180 Further press attention came in the form of Shields's appearance in a pictorial about the film in Playboy in March 1978. Malle's brother, Vincent, commented that the film's pre-publicity was calc...
Controversy and censorship
The film received an R-rating in the United States, an X-rating in the United Kingdom (18, following a change to the British ratings system), despite receiving two cuts from censors; it received an R18+rating in Australia, for its nudity and sexual content. Continuing controversy over Shields's underage nude scenes resulted in the film being banned in the Canadian provinces of Ontario: 39 and Saskatchewan (until 1995). Gossip columnist Rona Barrett called the film "child pornography", with di...
Home media
Paramount Home Entertainment released the film on DVD on November 18, 2003. In 2022, the Australian film label Imprint Films released it for the first time on Blu-ray in a special edition, which included an interview with Shields, in which she recalled shooting the film as well as its controversial reception. Kino Lorberannounced in January 2023 the forthcoming release of a North American Blu-ray.
Box office
The movie was met with a lackluster response from moviegoers. It performed poorly in terms of box office revenue, failing to even make it into the top 50 highest-grossing films of both 1978 and 1979. By December 31, 1978, it only generated $4.13 million in theatrical rentals.Despite its $3 million budget, the film was unable to generate enough ticket sales to cover its production costs.
Critical response
Pretty Baby divided critics at the time of its release.: 183 In his review for The New York Times, Vincent Canby wrote: "Mr. Malle, the French director ... has made some controversial films in his time but none, I suspect, that is likely to upset convention quite as much as this one – and mostly for the wrong reasons. Though the setting is a whorehouse, and the lens through which we see everything is Violet, who ... herself becomes one of Nell's chief attractions, Pretty Baby is neither about...
Accolades
The film won the Technical Grand Prize at the 1978 Cannes Film Festival, and was nominated for the Palm d'Or. The film's original musical score by Ferdinand Morton's earned the film an Academy Award nomination for Best Music.
While majoring in French literature at Princeton University, Shields went on to write her senior thesis, The Initiation: From Innocence to Experience: The Pre-Adolescent/Adolescent Journey in the Films of Louis Malle, Pretty Baby and Lacombe, Lucien (1987), comparing the themes of lost innocence in both films, as well as its role as a predominant t...
Pretty Baby at IMDbPretty Baby at AllMoviePretty Baby at the TCM Movie DatabasePretty Baby at the American Film Institute CatalogEdição limitada com 4 cards! Disco 01: Pretty Baby - Menina Bonita (Pretty Baby, 1978, 1.78:1, 105 min) Elenco Principal: Brooke Shields, Keith Carradine, Susan Sarandon. Sinopse: A filha de uma prostituta é criada em um bordel, onde cuida do seu irmão e se prepara para seguir os passos da mãe.
Summaries. A preteen girl lives as a prostitute in New Orleans in 1917. In 1917, in the red light district Storyville, New Orleans, the prostitute Hattie lives with her twelve year-old daughter Violet in the fancy brothel of Madame Nell, where she works.
Hattie (Susan Sarandon), a New Orleans hooker, meets a photographer named Bellocq (Keith Carradine) at her brothel one night and, after he photographs her, he befriends her 12-year-old daughter ...
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New Orleans, 1912. A filha de uma prostituta é criada em um bordel, onde cuida do irmão e se prepara para seguir os passos da mãe. Com doze anos de idade, sua virgindade é leiloada, sua mãe se casa e a abandona, e a menina acaba por se casar com um fotógrafo bem mais velho do que ela.
