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Pretty Baby
- Original title
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Pretty Baby
- Year
- 1978
- Running time
- 109 min.
- Country
 United States- Director
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- Screenwriter
Louis Malle, Polly Platt - Music
Jerry Wexler - Cinematography
Sven Nykvist - Cast
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- Producer
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Paramount Pictures
- Genre
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Drama | Prostitution. 1910s
- Synopsis
- The inspiration for Malle’s first American film was E. J. Bellocq’s remarkable photographic record of New Orleans’ red-light district, Storyville, in the early years of the twentieth century. A fourteen-year-old (Shields) is cheer-fully sold into the trade by her mother (Sarandon) and becomes involved with Bellocq himself (Carradine), who finds her a compelling subject of erotic and aesthetic interest.
- Awards
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1978: Nominated for Oscar: Best Original Song of la OST
1978: Cannes Film Festival: Technical Grand Prize
1978: Los Angeles Film Critics Association: Nominated for Best Cinematography
- Critics' reviews
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"Dull and lifeless."
Dave Kehr: Chicago Tribune
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"The most imaginative, most intelligent, and most original film of the year"
Vincent Canby: The New York Times
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"As in all of his movies, Malle exhibits in Pretty Baby his characteristically detached, skeptical, lucid, moral — not moralistic — attitude toward life."
Rolling Stone
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