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 Lolita (DVD)
Description: Genre: Drama / Theatrical Release: 1962 / Director: Stanley Kubrick / Actors: James Mason, Shelley Winters ... / DVD ... more  Lolita (DVD) ... released 01 June, 2006 at Warner Home Video / Features of the DVD: Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen / Stanley Kubrick's 1961 version of Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov's notorious 1953 novel, prompted a scandal in its day: even to address the issue of paedophilia on screen was deemed to be as perverted as the hapless protagonist Humbert Humbert. James Mason plays Humbert, the suave English Professor whose gentlemanly exterior peels away as quickly as his scruples once exposed to Sue Lyons' well-developed teenage beauty. In order to be close to her, he marries her mother, the lonely and pathetically pretentious Charlotte (Shelley Winters) only for her to expire conveniently, leaving Humbert free to embark on a motel-to-motel trek across America with Lolita in tow, evading suspicions that theirs is more than a father-daughter relationship. Peter Sellers, meanwhile, gives a Dr Strangelove-type tour de force performance as Clare Quilty, a TV writer also in pursuit of Lolita, who harasses Humbert under several guises, including a psychiatrist. As a movie, Lolita is flawed, albeit interestingly so. The sexual innuendo (a summer camp called Camp Climax, for example) seems jarring and pointless, while Sellers' comic turn detracts from any sense of guilt, tension or tragedy. It's as if the real purpose of the film is to offer a sort of silent, mocking laughter at the wretched Humbert and systematically divest him of his dignity. By the end, he is a babbling wretch while Sue Lyons' Lolita is pragmatic and self-possessed. It's Mason and Lyons' performances, which lift the film from its mess of structural difficulties. Decades on, their central relationship still makes for pitifully compulsive viewing. On the DVD: Few extras, sadly, though the brief original trailer is excellent, built around the question, "How could they make a film out of Lolita?". The original black and white picture and mono sound are excellent. --David StubbsNewest Review: ... middle-aged pervert and Lolita as anything other than an innocent teenage angel, but both parts are so beautifully played ... more ... that this is far from the case.
It is easy from watching the film to understand how Humbert is disgusted and disgraced by his own feelings for a young girl, but is unable and sometimes unwilling to fight them. He knows what he is doing is wrong, but can't help but continue to be drawn to her. Lolita is played by Dominique Swain who was only 15 at the time of filming and again brings a lot of depth to her character. At times we see Lolita as the one actively doing the seducing; at other times we see her for what s...more |
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Lolita (DVD): Lolita (610 words)
by GuruOnAMountain - written on 20.06.05 (Very useful, 281 readings)
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It is not often that you stumble across a movie that is both captivating and uncomfortable to watch, but Lolita, directed by Adrian Lyne is exactly that kind of movie. It is based on the novel of the same name by Vladimir Nabokov and is the story of a man called Humbert who finds himself falling in love with a 14 year old girl who reminds him of his childhood sweetheart who tragically died young. The film stars Jeremy Irons and he was the reason I was first drawn to it, but I doubt I would've bought it had I not spotted it on special offer. However, I was not disappointed. From the onset Irons brings a sensual subtlety to the character of Humbert. I at first ...
But in my arms she was always Lolita. (1678 words)
by peel.rebekah - written on 13.10.01 (Very useful, 319 readings)
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Difficult intro bit: There's this book, right, and it is (kinda unfortunately) the better known of this particular author's work, even though he wrote some really insightful and wonderful other stuff. It was originally published in a weirdy pornie type of way (Travelers Companion series)...which, I suppose, it kinda is...but then again it isn't; then there was the normal outraged UPROAR...and then a few years later, just when most of the 'disturbed' memories of Lolita were beginning to settle and gather dust somewhere in the nether regions of societies' brain (apart from those great thinkers of the Legion of Decency and the Catholic ...
Lolita (DVD): An old film about an incestuous paedophile....? (448 words)
by LisaBabe - written on 17.09.01 (Useful, 207 readings)
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...Well so I was told. 'Lolita is on tonight, it is about a dirty paedophile who rapes his daughter'. But i was told it was a good film, not my cup of tea by the sound of it, but i gave it a chance. Well, this film is not about paedophiles. Nor is it about incest. It is about two people thrown together and acting on their lustful impulses. And the father does NOT rape the girl - at any time. She is a very willing party in these sexual games, often more so than he is. The pair travel, and often engage in sexual activity, as time goes on, the girl, 12 years old don't forget, begins to initiate sex as a way of getting ...
