Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields, a retrospective of the model and actor’s career, skims over questions that deserve more thorough answers.
Pretty Baby: Brooke ShieldsDuring the two-hour-and-13-minute runtime of, a new two-part ABC News documentary streaming on Hulu, viewers see Shields’s face and body at every age, from every angle. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of photos from her long career as a model and actor — selling gym equipment, gracing magazine covers, starring in movies, giving interviews. This is a woman who has never known life outside of the public eye. offers a meticulous biography.
But intercutting clips of the film with criticism of it doesn’t make it less sexually charged, and soonce did: offering transgression and distance from the transgression at the same time. Visually, the documentary revels in the beauty and eroticism of young, thin, naked Shields, but verbally, it skirts the obvious and uncomfortable truth that the clips are sexually arousing.
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