He declines until seeing her 14-year-old daughter, Dolores, affectionately nicknamed 'Lolita', with whom he becomes infatuated. He searches for a room to rent, and Charlotte Haze, a cloying, sexually frustrated widow, invites him to stay at her house. 1 on the piano before he is shot to death by Humbert 'Hum' Humbert, a middle-aged European professor of French literature.įour years earlier, Humbert arrives in Ramsdale, New Hampshire, intending to spend the summer before his professorship begins at Beardsley College, Ohio. In a remote mansion, Clare Quilty, drunk and incoherent, plays Frédéric Chopin's Polonaise in A major, Op. Regardless, the film has since received critical acclaim, and was later nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 35th Academy Awards.

Years after its release, Kubrick expressed doubt that he would have attempted to make the film had he fully understood how severe the censorship limitations on it would be. Lolita polarized contemporary critics for its depictions of child sexual abuse. The actress who played Lolita, Sue Lyon, was 14 at the time of filming whereas Lolita of Nabokov's novel is 12 years old when Humbert Humbert first meets her. Owing to restrictions imposed by the Motion Picture Production Code, the film toned down the most provocative aspects of the novel, sometimes leaving much to the audience's imagination. It stars James Mason, Shelley Winters, Peter Sellers and, as the titular character, Sue Lyon. The film follows Humbert Humbert, a middle-aged literature lecturer who becomes sexually infatuated with Dolores Haze (nicknamed 'Lolita'), a young adolescent girl. Lolita is a 1962 black comedy- psychological drama film directed by Stanley Kubrick based on the eponymous 1955 novel by Vladimir Nabokov, who is also credited with writing the screenplay.

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