Lolita (DVD) > Reviews

Advantages: Fantastic portrayal of an excellent book
Disadvantages: 'delicate' issues delat with

'Lolita' deals with a contravercial subject matter, but the resulting film is both sensitive and beautifully subtle. Jeremy Irons plays an excellent role as Humbert Humbert, the enchanted step-father, and Domanique Swain gives an amazing performance as the seductive, yet innocent Lolita. The story could be summed up as 'stolen innocence'-a young girl becomes facinated with her new step-father, the very man who married her mother just to be close ... Read review

Advantages: Amazing film, quality extras, wonderful acting, beautiful story
Disadvantages: Extras are few, otherwise it's a brilliant buy.

With Lolita, Adrian Lyne has done something a bit unusual. He has taken a staggeringly good novel and created from it a film which doesn't let you down. The story is one of a young boy in France who falls in love with a girl who abruptly dies. The pain of the loss haunts him through his life and he eventually finds himself living with a woman and her daughter. He focuses his haunted heart on the 12 year old Dolores. From here a story of love, ... Read review

Advantages: controversial film
Disadvantages: not sure if it is a fair representation of the novel

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 ... Read review

Advantages: Brilliantly performed controversial Film!!
Disadvantages: Nothing at all, I loved it!

...plans, its her nymph daughter, Lolita (Dominique Swain), who ultimately wins Humbert's affection, testing him and satisfying his secret desires with disastrous results. This is a vry moving film and it honestly does make you stop and think about things in a different perspective! I first saw it on Cable a few months back and had to get it on DVD, it's Absolutley Fabulous!!!! The Special Features Include: The Director's (Adrian Lyne) Commentary A ... Read review

Advantages: Very good
Disadvantages: maybe too controversial for some

...Lolita. In the original book Lolita is 12 years old but in the movie she is 14 and played by a 15 year old girl. The subject is very controversial and focuses on his destructive realtionship with Lolita and the implications on his life and hers. The film is simply brillaint and does justice to the book, it tackles a difficult subject in a very tasteful way with good results. I would recommend this film to anyone who is into literature and a fan of ... Read review