Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.
Direction
Kubrick weaponizes censorship into narrative tension.
Acting
Peter Sellers' Quilty steals every scene he's barely in.
Writing
Nabokov's screenplay drips with poisoned wit.
Director
Stanley Kubrick
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