Lolita
Screening on Film
Directed by Stanley Kubrick.
With James Mason, Sue Lyon, Peter Sellers.
US, 1962, 35mm, color, 152 min.
With James Mason, Sue Lyon, Peter Sellers.
US, 1962, 35mm, color, 152 min.
Stanley Kubrick’s sixth film, a brilliant adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov’s darkly humorous and controversial novel, tells the story of a middle-aged man’s unusual sexual obsession with a precociously seductive, barely pubescent teenager, filtered through an aura of incest. Although Nabokov is credited with writing the screenplay, his final published manuscript differs from the finished film, in which Kubrick greatly expanded the role of Peter Sellers.