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Lolita (1992x14)

Air date: Aug 02, 1992

Lolita is the story of a lecturer in French literature and his amour fou for a pre-teenage nymphet. The film, of course, is based on Vladimir Nabokov’s book, which was generally considered unfilmable until a young American director called Stanley Kubrick took it up. The script is by Nabokov, and it’s very good - although, surprisingly, not overtly literary. Nabokov was born in Russia; English was his second, or maybe even his third or fourth language, and perhaps not surprisingly he became a master of the idiom what we speak. If you ever yearn for literary indulgence, I would urge you to check out his book Pale Fire, a brilliant parody of epic poetry with an insane sub-plot running through the footnotes.