Hattie, meanwhile, aspires to escape prostitution.
After a bidding war among regulars, Violet is bought by an apparently quiet customer. Nell decides that Violet is old enough for her virginity to be auctioned off. Violet is a restless child, frustrated by the long, precise process Bellocq must go through to compose and take pictures. His activities fascinate Violet, though she believes he is falling in love with her mother, which makes her jealous. Madame Nell agrees only after he offers to pay.īellocq becomes a fixture in the brothel, photographing the prostitutes, mostly Hattie. He asks to be allowed to take photographs of the women. Bellocq comes with his camera, Hattie and Violet are the only people awake. Hattie has given birth to a baby boy and has a 12-year-old daughter, Violet, who lives in the house. In 1917, during the last months of legal prostitution in Storyville, the red-light district of New Orleans, Louisiana, Hattie is a prostitute working at an elegant brothel run by the elderly, cocaine-sniffing Madame Nell. This entry was posted in Film, Video & TV, Malle, Louis, Narrative, Realism, Shields, Brooke and tagged Eroticism, Nude, Prostitution by Ron. It seems that the character is inspired by Dickens’ Nell but in Dostoevsky she is called Nellie/Nelly (Нелли, from Elena).” Thank you for these details. “I think “Nell” should be “Nellie” or “Nelly”.
A loyal reader sent some private comments about the Nell character. Not all of her experiences with these artists were salutory which may be why when Shields was cast for The Blue Lagoon (1980), body doubles were used for all the nude scenes. A number of noted photographers have shot her and I intend to feature three of them here: Garry Gross, Francesco Scavullo and Steve Mills. This lynchpin post opens the door to some other important work involving Brooke Shields. While the proper family life-represented by the mundane family portrait-offers security along with a dull lifestyle which may not appeal to everyone. Living the life of an artist is a rich but risky adventure-represented by the fussy and perfectionistic Bellocq-and flouts society’s conventions. Even the business about the snapshot at the end is a kind of statement about the superficiality of conventional family life. In a sense, Malle satisfied the Hollywood censors by offering us this moral ending, but he makes no bones about keeping us in the air about what is really best for Violet. Sarandon and Malle must have had a good working relationship because he also used her in his film, Atlantic City in 1980. In the opening scene, we see a closeup of Violet (Shields) watching as her mother Hattie (Susan Sarandon)-one of the house whores-gives birth to a baby boy. I read similar accounts of such a district in Chicago in Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America’s Soul. They tended to be named after a particular alderman, whose role it was to placate a morally-outraged and fearful public. Such places, which were seen in many other big cities as well, were designated vice zones-presumably to keep them “contained”. The story takes place in the 1917 New Orleans Storyville district.
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Like most Malle films, a coherent plot is not paramount and, in this case, we are really seeing a series of vignettes expressing the human condition in a particular time and place. Beyond that, this film features one of America’s most breathtaking beauties, Brooke Shields. After Lewis Carroll’s Alice and Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, Pretty Baby (1977) is perhaps the most popular metaphor symbolizing the cult of the girl child.
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