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Dominican Rep. Lolita
11,381
Drama. Romance
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.
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"The movie is neither sensationalist nor unintelligent, and some may even find the performances finally achieve a genuine poignancy." | ||
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"In the end, 'Lolita' is a tragic morality tale and a poignant character study (...) Lyne's film echoes Nabokov's transforming vision: it turns Humbert's madness into art." | ||
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"Lyne doesn't seem to get the novel, failing to incorporate any of Nabokov's black comedy -- which is to say, Lolita's heart and soul." | ||
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"It is a dizzying, morally dangerous work – and an extraordinary entertainment" | ||
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"[A] well-done version of Vladimir Nabokov's controversial but acclaimed, now classic novel (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)" | ||
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"In many ways, the concept underlying Lolita is more provocative than the actual material, which tends to be a bit long-winded. This is more the fault of the book than of Lyne's approach." | ||
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"Lyne has created, from a screenplay by Stephen Schiff, an earnest movie about a man who, by falling in love with his emotionally immature stepdaughter, ends up destroying himself." | ||
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"After an intriguing opening stretch, and despite Jeremy Irons' potent lead performance, the overlong film becomes repetitive, flat and often dull." | ||
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"Except for a memorably haunted performance by Jeremy Irons as the conflicted Humbert Humbert, what the new version lacks most of all is inspiration." | ||
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"A genuinely disturbing (if far from literary) adaptation of Nabokov's extraordinary novel" | ||
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"All movie adaptations of Nabokov fall short, by definition, but this one is the most graceful failure so far." |
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