while best know for the controversy it inevitably ignite whenever it mention and this be and in reality and a fantastic film . you have to feel a little sorry for brooke shield and a her starring in this essentially screw her up psychologically something fierce and but she do give her one and only exceptional performance in it a a 12 year old girl living in a new orleans whorehouse . she be be groom for a life in the world old profession by a rickety old madame and even her mother ( susan sarandon ) . meanwhile and a bizarre photographer ( keith carradine ) enter this world to take picture . he allow to stick around every day because and i do not know and i suppose they think he might bring them some fame or at least advertisement and and because they assume he a homosexual and nonthreatening . over the course of the film and his relationship with shield blossom and but youre never really sure what his deal be . personally and i do think he be a pedophile . while the prostitute be always try to turn shield into a season whore and carradine be always insist that she remain a child . yet he be most certainly interested in a romantic relationship and as well and even while he want to pretend it a father or daughter relationship . so and really and i should probably be disgust with carradine and but why do i feel so sad when sarandon show up at the end and after he and shield have be marry and to take her away . pretty baby be an extremely complex film and emotionally and and it gorgeously direct in a very subtle style by malle and who might very well be my favorite french director . the final moment of the movie have shield and about to become an actual little girl for the first time in her life and have her picture take by her stepfather . the final freeze frame be every bit as perfect a the one that end truffaut the 400 blow .