

Lolita : méprise sur un fantasme
How was an abused teenage girl turned into an erotic icon?
A fresh new look at Lolita, the famous and controversial novel published in 1955 by Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov (1891-1977), a masterpiece of English-language literature that has been constantly misinterpreted by countless readers who have mistakenly turned its young heroine into an erotic icon.
Cast

Denis Podalydès
Self - Narrator (voice)

Vladimir Nabokov
Self - Writer (archive footage)

Vanessa Springora
Herself - novelist & victim of a paedophile
Ivan Nabokov
Himself - writer
Brian Boyd
Himself - Nabokov's biographer
Yannicke Chupin
Herself - Academic
Storyline
A fresh new look at Lolita, the famous and controversial novel published in 1955 by Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov (1891-1977), a masterpiece of English-language literature that has been constantly misinterpreted by countless readers who have mistakenly turned its young heroine into an erotic icon.
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