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LOLITA
April 14, 2018  | By David Bianculli

TCM, 3:00 p.m. ET

 

The premise of this 1962 Stanley Kubrick movie, based on the controversial novel by Vladimir Nabokov, was incendiary at the time. Then Lolita, thanks in no small to a wicked performance by Peter Sellers, became accepted by the mainstream as another of director Stanley Kubrick’s cinematic masterpieces, and the story – about a middle-aged professor (James Mason) becoming inappropriately infatuated by a 14-year-old girl (Sue Lyon) – stopped raising eyebrows. But in this newly aware era, and after national headlines about a certain Southern politician cruising malls in search of underage girls, maybe Lolita shouldn’t be looked at as just a satire…

 
 
 
 
 
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