![]() Violet has in the meantime gained a protector and confidant: Bellocq ( Keith Carradine), the silent, eccentric photographer. She wants to take her daughter with her, but Violet won't go: For her, this house is a home. ![]() She also keeps a well-run establishment, populated by hookers like Violet's mother Hattie ( Susan Sarandon), who dreams of escaping from the life and eventually succeeds: She marries a prosperous businessman from St. And I know one thing: Life is very long." An almost opaque line, but she invests it with infinite weariness. And we get to know the people, too, especially the strange and cynical brothel-keeper Madame Nell ( Frances Faye), who observes at one point in her gravelly voice: "I am old. The movie pays infinite attention to detail, and looks and feels accurate: We get to know the brothel so well, with its curving staircases and baroque furnishings, we almost feel we live there too. Malle places her in an extraordinarily well-realized world, the Storyville section of New Orleans, circa 1917. And Shields really creates a character here her subtlety and depth are astonishing. ![]() But he's thoughtful and almost cautious in his approach: Given the film's subject matter and its obligatory sex scenes, Malle shows taste and restraint. ![]() Before anyone had seen "Pretty Baby," Malle was being accused of exploiting that fact. The pretty baby of the title is named Violet, and is played by Brooke Shields, as an extraordinarily beautiful child. ![]()
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