LOLITA (1962)
**The Saturday, Nov 22 Noon screening will be introduced by Sarah Childress, Ph.D. candidate at Vanderbilt University whose research interests include avant-garde and Latin American cinema.**
LOLITA, among its many other virtues, could be Kubrick’s only title that settled into the English vernacular. Vladimir Nabokov’s novel (he also is credited as the screenwriter) was considered unfilmable due to its content wherein a middle-aged college professor becomes infatuated with a 14-year-old girl. In Kubrick’s hands, overt sexuality and prurient subject matter is traded for more suggestive and metaphorical situations as the troubled professor marries Lolita’s mother in order to persue the girl. 1962, b&w, 35mm, 152min.
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Synopsis courtesy of the Belcourt website!