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Despite Malle's concerted effort to make the film sanitized of explicit sex, it received significant salacious pre-publicity leading up to its release, including a lengthy article by Joan Goodman in New York Magazine, which described it as "Lolita, only in period costume and much more explicit."
Apr 12, 1987 · MALLE RELIVES TRAUMA OF HIS CHILDHOOD. By DONALD CHASE. April 12, 1987 12 AM PT. PROVINS, France —. In the German-occupied France of 1944, when Louis Malle was 12 and a student at the Petit ...
That's a coup for Malle, who sometimes seems to dare himself to find acceptable ways of filming unacceptable subjects. His subject this time is a twelve-year-old girl who is raised in the New Orleans brothel where her mother works.
Apr 30, 1978 · LOUIS MALLE is an extremely reminative personality. He weighs his remarks thoughtfully and carefully, questions his motives frequently, resists a fixed or authoritative perception of things.
Louis Malle’s film, released 40 years ago this week, made an indelible impression on its pre-teen star, just as she made an indelible impression on the world in her first starring role. “It ...
Interview with Louis Malle. It was a night in New York to hover over a bottle of burgundy, one's elbows on the table and talk of human love, of myth, of decency...and incest. They had not all seemed to belong in the same sentence before tonight, but now - well, "Murmur of the Heart" is not an ordinary film. Hardly.
Apr 5, 1978 · Through Violet's Eyes. PRETTY BABY, directed and produced by Louis Malle; screenplay by Polly Platt, based on a story by Miss Platt and Mr. Malle; director of photography. Sven Nykvist ...
