Rediscover Lolita de Stanley Kubrick in 35 mm

First and Pathé combine to show the masterpieces of the 7th art in 35 mm on the big screen. And it all starts with Stanley Kubrick. Real cinema is reborn.

From Sunday June 15, moviegoers will be able to rediscover the hypnotic power of cinema of Stanley Kubrick As it should be: indoors, at Pathé Palace (in Paris), on film, in the grain and the texture that the perfectionist filmmaker had imagined. First and Pathé thus inaugurate an exceptional cycle of projections in 35 mm and 70 mm.

Lolita: the art of controlled transgression

And this cycle opens with Lolita (1962), adaptation of the sulphurous novel by Nabokov which marked a turning point in Kubrick’s career. After his first promising trials (The kiss of the killer,, The Ultimate Razzia), the 34 -year -old filmmaker seizes a hot topic with already amazing mastery. Faced with American censorship, Kubrick develops an art of suggestion and ellipse which will become his signature: saying the inexpressible by the unsaid, reveal the obsession by detail. James Mason embodies Humbert Humbert with troubled elegance, facing a magnetic Sue Lyon in manipulator. Kubrick succeeds above all to transform the literary scandal into a cinematographic masterpiece, with an already characteristic clinical coldness. The film announces the great Kubrickian obsessions: the underlying violence of human relationships, beauty as a mortal trap, creaky irony in the face of social conventions.

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The Odyssey continues in 70mm

2001: The Odyssey of Space (1968) will take over on June 29, projected in its original 70mm format and Mechanical orange (1971) will close this first part on July 13.

For each film, there will be two projections. The first will be presented by writing your favorite magazine, and a catch -up session will be offered the following week. A good way to remember that certain films should not only be seen: they must be lived, in the darkness of the rooms, carried by the breath of the film. More than anyone, Kubrick understood this. The proof on Sunday.