![]() Yet she found a way to sail through most of it with pluck and humor and grace. You could certainly say that Shields was someone who was put through a voyeuristic pop-image machine and emerged as a survivor. It invests each chapter of Brooke Shields’ life with more thought and depth and archival coverage than we’ve seen before, and it never loses sight of the larger story it’s telling: that this is really about how the American image culture elevated the marketing of sexuality into a morally murky and sensationalist art form, one that had real-world repercussions - for Shields, who was at the center of it all, and for us - that the image makers never gave a damn about. Yet “Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields,” directed by Lana Wilson (who was at Sundance three years ago with the Taylor Swift doc “Miss Americana”), is a supremely well-crafted piece of conventional documentary portraiture. The arc of the tale is more than familiar.
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