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: In a pivotal and highly controversial scene, Violet’s virginity is auctioned off to the highest bidder for $400. The Resolution
Directed by the acclaimed French New Wave director Louis Malle ( Au Revoir les Enfants , Elevator to the Gallows ), Pretty Baby is set in 1917 New Orleans. The film follows Violet (played by Brooke Shields, aged 11 at the time of filming), a young girl growing up in a brothel run by the eccentric Madame Nell (Frances Faye). Violet’s mother, Hattie (Susan Sarandon), is a prostitute who is desperate to escape her life. When Hattie marries a wealthy customer and leaves, Violet is groomed to take her place. The plot culminates in a shocking auction of Violet’s virginity, followed by her “marriage” to a dashing, obsessive photographer named Bellocq (Keith Carradine). pretty+baby+1978+okru
The story follows Violet, a 12-year-old girl raised in a brothel where her mother, Hattie, works as a prostitute. Violet is groomed by the other women in the house and eventually undergoes a "deflowering ritual" intended to auction her virginity to the highest bidder. Amidst this environment, she forms a complex relationship with Bellocq, a photographer based on the real-life Ernest Bellocq, who documented the prostitutes of New Orleans. : In a pivotal and highly controversial scene,
