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FEW DIRECTORS can confound critics as thoroughly as Louis Malle. Pretty Baby gave him the perfect opportunity to produce a beautiful film with a good does of social commentary. But instead he made a smooth inoffensive period piece, a restrained account of pedophilia that cast glances but spared innuendo.
Louis Malle, French director, on the difference between U.S. and European film making: "If anything, the American industry is more honest. They make it clear right away that it's all about money. In Europe, they pretend it's about art."
Directed by Louis Malle
Louis Malle, who has a deserved reputation for taking on dangerous projects (Pretty Baby, Murmur of the Heart), was obviously attracted to the challenge of doing what amounts to an antimovie, static and minimalist. He has functioned, it seems, pretty much in the manner of a good TV technician handling...
Malle's characters are always cleaning themselves, washing their hands, trying to rid themselves of the soot and the smells of their city. In the film's opening shot, Sarandon goes through a ritual of purification that appears like a refrain through the movie: to remove the fish-smell from...