Pretty Baby

(1978)

★ 7 IMDb · 435 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1978

Runtime: 110 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Louis Malle

Cast: Брук Шилдс, Кит Кэррадайн, Сьюзан Сарандон, Frances Faye, Антонио Фаргас, Matthew Anton, Дайана Скаруид, Барбара Стил, Gerrit Graham, Don Hood

Plot

In 1917 New Orleans, a 12-year-old girl is raised in a brothel by her prostitute mother.

1917, the last months of legal prostitution in Storyville - New Orleans' red-light district. Hattie, a prostitute at the elegant home of Madame Nell, and her 12-year-old daughter Violet are the only ones awake with photographer Ernest J. Bellocq comes by with his camera. He takes pictures of Hattie and he fascinates Violet. Over the next few months, Nell arranges for the auction of Violet's virginity, Hattie marries and goes to St. Louis leaving Violet behind, and Violet determines to marry Bellocq. Is this idyllic or is she just a girl wearing rouge, soon to return to childhood?