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Lolita : méprise sur un fantasme (2021)

7.5 | Sep 29, 2021 (FR) | Documentary, History, TV Movie | 00:55

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.

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Director, Writer
Original Music Composer
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Denis Podalydès
Self - Narrator (voice)
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Vladimir Nabokov
Self - Writer (archive footage)
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Vanessa Springora
Herself - novelist & victim of a paedophile
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Ivan Nabokov
Himself - writer
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Brian Boyd
Himself - Nabokov's biographer
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Yannicke Chupin
Herself - Academic

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