Lolita : méprise sur un fantasme

Overview

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.

Details

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