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Lolita is controversial film. Its unpredictability keeps the audience on the edge of their seats throughout. Based on Vladimir Nabokov's novel, the film centres on two characters; academic Humbert Humbert and coy Lolita Haze. Other characters such as mother Charlotte, serve merely as pawns in Humbert's game to play for the top prize - Lolita herself.
The tension the viewer feels stems from the fact that we are encouraged to sympathise with Humbert from the beginning. At the same time there is the natural uneasiness aroused by the sight of an older man having a sexual relationship with a girl who is young enough to be his daughter. The film is enjoyable, but there is nevertheless something missing from it. Perhaps the character of Lolita's mother could be more credible. She is written off the script far too quickly and it is if her fate is almost too convenient. Yet the film has a thought-provoking theme and is worth a watch.
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From Adrian Lyne, the director of '9 And A Half Weeks' and 'Fatal Attraction', comes this ... more
powerful, provocative and profoundly moving adaptation of a twentieth century literary masterpiece. When schoolteacher Hubert marries his landlady, Charlotte Haze...
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Jan 13th, 2001
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