Word: incestousness
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...main difficulties with Maude Pratt is that she is more convincing as a metaphor than as a character. She is full of biting, often cranky opinions about fame and the effects of patronage on artists. This contrasts with her humid, romantic maunderings on art and incest. It is almost as if Author Theroux were suggesting that Maude's lust for her brother was indistinguishable from her aloof and aristocratic aesthetic...
Pretty Baby. The come-on was irresistable. Brooke Shields--the 12 year old prepubescent tart of our most secret fantasies. And Louis Malle--the man who might have done for the topic of child prostitution what he did with the incest taboo in "Murmur of the Heart." But the product is confused in its story line and unidentifiable in its ideology, all in all a pretty big let down. Shields conveys all the mischieviousness of childhood, and none of the mystery. Her mother (Susan Sarandon) strands her in their New Orleans brothel without us ever really understanding why. And although...
...seemed the perfect director to handle it. Of all contemporary French filmmakers, Malle has been the most subtle in his treatment of sexual hang-ups and societal perversions. It would have been hoped that he could do with our cultural inhibitions about child sexuality what he did with the incest taboo in Murmur of the Heart. Or that with his genius for cinematic austerity he could have conveyed the every-dayness of this sort of corruption, as he did with the drift toward fascism in Lacombe, Lucien. In that film he moved us through understatement. In this film, he doesn...
...have been cast more on the basis of looks than ability. Still, the movie's major troubles cannot be explained away so easily, for at its heart there is a failure of will. While Malle has had no difficulty making films about teen age boys who commit incest (Murmur) or murder (Lacombe), he has been defeated by the pre-teen prostitute of Pretty Baby. The movie circles around its heroine without ever zeroing...
...According to a TIME Yankelovich poll, 64% of the public believe that a woman should be free to have an abortion if she wants one. But 58% agree with Jimmy Carter ("Life is unfair") that public funds should not be used for abortions, except in cases of rape, incest or where a woman's life is in danger...