Lewis Carroll admitted that his liking for little girls stemmed from a need to "value and love what is fleeting and transient." J.D. Salinger is famed for saying he liked girls up until the age of 13. Vladimir Nabokov created 12-year-old Lolita, who became one of the most enduring love fantasies of the 20th century. The art/literary world doesn't lack for examples of adults obsessing over very young girls, but Lucile Hadzihalilovic's "Innocence" has a slightly different take. The obsession is there, yes, but it's chaste and poetic, and ultimately very, very sexual.
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