Pretty Baby 1978 Film | [extra Quality]

The film’s genius—and its curse—is its point of view. Malle, the French New Wave humanist who had already made the haunting Au Revoir, Les Enfants , refused to make a didactic PSA. He bathes the brothel in golden, nostalgic light. The sex workers (including a luminous Susan Sarandon as Violet’s mother) are portrayed as a dysfunctional family: joking, fighting, and tending to their pet parrot.