(Stanley Kubrick, US/UK 1962, 153 min., 35mm)
“How did they ever make a movie of LOLITA?” asked the posters promoting the film. Vladimir Nabokov’s controversial novel scared off directors and actors alike, but not Stanley Kubrick. British ex-pat Humbert Humbert decides to spend his summer in small-town New Hampshire before moving onto his permanent position at an Ohio university. Without a place to stay, he accepts the offer of Charlotte Haze (Shelley Winters) after he sees and falls madly in love with her fourteen-year-old daughter Lolita. He moves in with and marries the possessive Charlotte to be close to Lolita, but when tragedy strikes, the May-December lovers find themselves on the run and hounded by a man with his own agenda (Peter Sellers, celebrating his 100th birthday this year). Vladimir Nabokov’s controversial novel is brought into stark visualization with Kubrick’s deft black-and-white photography.
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