Word: mallee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Directed by Louis Malle, Screenplay by Polly Plan
By all rights, Pretty Baby should have been Louis Malle's masterpiece. The movie is the story of a child prostitute in New Orleans during World War I, and no film maker is better equipped to tell that story than Malle. As he demonstrated in Murmur of the Heart...
Since this is Malle's first American movie, one could argue that the director has been defeated by transatlantic cultural jet lag. To some extent this is true. Much of the film's dialogue, which is ridden with whorehouse-fiction clichés, would never be tolerated by...
THE SOUR MESSAGE finally becomes clear: although the glamour has gone and the social thrust flagged, Belmondo can't get the criminal act out of his system. It may not show on his depressed face, but he needs the rush. How in the world Malle conceived the idea to weigh...
As the flashbacks end and the dawn breaks on the caper that began the film, we see the dark rings under Belmondo's eyes and face the ugly mess of burglary for the first time in broad daylight. The whole business is not such a lark after all; Belmondo doesn...