72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
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Lolita

Adrian Lyne
France
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Refined, brilliant and highly attractive to women, Humbert Humber hides the memory of his thwarted childhood love for a girl called Annabel, who died of an illness. Shattered by the incident, its memory has followed him into adult life. Years later, he moves to New England as a professor. Taking lodgings with Charlotte, a voluptuous widow, Humbert only has eyes for her daughter, Lolita, a twelve-year-old who reminds him of Annabel. While the mother does her best to seduce him, Humbert turns his charms on Lolita. With the desired effect. Setting off through the United States with his unusual partner, Humbert soon sees the paradise of his dreams turning to Hell. 

Director
Adrian Lyne
Screenplay
Stephen Schiff
Plot
Vladimir Nabokov
Photography
Howard atherton
Edition
Julie Monroe, David Brenner
Music
Enio Morricone
Cast
Jeremy Irons, Melanie Griffith, Dominique Swain, Frank Langella
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Alphatex
10, rue Lincoln
75008
Paris
Running Time
140 m.
Country
France
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