They stay the night in a hotel that is handling an overflow influx of police officers attending a convention. Humbert arrives to pick up Lolita from camp she does not yet know her mother is dead. In an outburst, she runs outside, but is hit by a car and dies. Charlotte discovers Humbert's diary entries detailing his passion for Lolita and describing Charlotte as "obnoxious" and "brainless". Things turn sour for the couple in the absence of the child: glum Humbert becomes more withdrawn, and Charlotte grows increasingly unfulfilled and upset. Though he roars with laughter while reading the sadly heartfelt yet characteristically overblown letter, Humbert marries Charlotte. The letter says that if Humbert is still in the house when she returns, Charlotte will know her love is requited, and he must marry her. After the Hazes depart for camp, the maid gives Humbert a letter from Charlotte, confessing her love for him and demanding he vacate at once unless he feels the same way. However, Charlotte wants all of Humbert's time for herself and tells him that she will be sending Lolita to an all-girl sleepaway camp for the summer. To be close to Lolita, Humbert accepts Charlotte's offer and becomes a lodger in the Haze household. 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. In the late 1990s, British director Adrian Lyne again attempted to adapt the novel to the big screen. Regardless, the film has since received critical acclaim. 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 with its theme of child sexual abuse but was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 35th Academy Awards. Sue Lyon was 14 at the time of filming and played a 14-year-old, whereas the Lolita of Nabokov's novel is just 12 years old when Humbert Humbert first meets her. Owing to restrictions imposed by the Motion Picture Production Code (1934–68), the film toned down the most provocative aspects, sometimes leaving much to the audience's imagination. The novel was considered "unfilmable" when Kubrick acquired the rights around the time of its U.S. Haze, Peter Sellers as Quilty, and Sue Lyon (in her film debut) as Dolores "Lolita" Haze. It stars James Mason as Humbert, Shelley Winters as Mrs. He is sexually infatuated with young, adolescent Dolores Haze (whom he calls "Lolita"). The black-and-white film follows a middle-aged literature lecturer who writes as "Humbert Humbert" and has hebephilia. Lolita is an American 1962 black comedy- psychological drama film directed by Stanley Kubrick based on the eponymous 1955 novel by Vladimir Nabokov.
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