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Lolita
FRANCE · 1997

Lolita

Adrian Lyne
obsession predatory behavior unreliable narrator cultural clash moral corruption
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Synopsis

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.

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