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Sep 18, 2024 · The Luzhin Defence is a stately, well-acted but curiously detached drama based on Nabokov's novel about a Russian socialite (Emily Watson) falling in...
Sep 9, 2024 · John Turturro plays the shambling, shabby savant Alexander Luzhin whose social skills lag behind those he employs on the chess board.
4 days ago · Marfa's bequest of 3000 rubles to Dunya completely upends Luzhin's schemes, providing her with a foundation for the future. Luzhin had sought a wife who was destitute and entirely dependent on him, yet still intelligent, beautiful, and well-mannered. Dunya fit this rare profile almost perfectly.
Sep 4, 2024 · In the 1920’s, a socially awkward Grand Master (John Turturro) breaks out of his chess-obsessed mind when he falls in love with a young woman (Emily Watson) he meets while competing at a world-class tournament in Italy. The film is based on the novel The Defense by Vladimir Nabokov.
Sep 10, 2024 · The Luzhin Defence (2000) Image from Rotten Tomatoes. The Luzhin Defence follows Aleksandr Ivanovich Luzhin (John Turturro), a gifted but tormented chess player as he arrives to compete in a world-class tournament in Italy.
Sep 1, 2024 · The aim of the study is to justify the concept of the world-modeling strategy of V. Nabokov as a novelist during the Berlin period of his creative development.
Sep 20, 2024 · In The Luzhin Defence (1964), Vladimir Nabokov used chess as a metaphor for obsessive madness. In The Queen’s Gambit (1979), Walter Tevis wrote the counterargument: chess mastery as self-mastery.
