Film Club Mainstream: LOLITA

FILM CLUB MAINSTREAM PRESENTS

LOLITA
A FILM BY ADRIAN LYNE
STARRING JEREMY IRONS, MELANIE GRIFFITHS AND FRANK LANGELLA

Monday 9 February 2015, 7:00pm

Miao | Eat, Love, Play
20 Jarvis, De Waterkant
Miao will offer a full bar and kitchen menu.
 

IN A NUTSHELL: A man marries his landlady so he can take advantage of her daughter.

ABOUT THE FILM: Humbert Humbert, a British professor coming to the US to teach, rents a room in Charlotte Haze's house, but only after he sees her 14-year-old daughter, Dolores (Lolita), to whom he is immediately attracted. Though he hates the mother, he marries her as this is the only way to be close to the girl, who will prove to be too mature for her age. They start a journey together, trying to hide they're not just (step)father and daughter, throughout the country, being followed by someone whom Humbert first suspects to be from the police. The profound jealousy, and maybe some guilt from the forbidden love, seem slowly to drive the man emotionally labile.

FROM THE CRITICS:

"Stunning and emotionally gripping." - The New York Times
"Erotic." - People Magazine
 

STARRING:
Jeremy Irons as Humbert Humbert
Melanie Griffiths as Charlotte Haze
Frank Langella as Clare Quilty
Dominique Swain as Dolores "Lolita" Haze

PANEL:
Brent Palmer, actor
Mark Jackson, film director and writer

Moderated by Tamryn Spiers, lecturer and coach

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