Lolita

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Time Out says

Less genuinely ecstatic in its portrait of paedophiliac obsession than Nabokov's novel - Kubrick is too cold and distanced a director ever to portray happiness, it seems - but nevertheless far more satisfying than his later works (one hesitates to call them mere movies). Mason is highly impressive as Humbert Humbert - all repressed passion and furrowed brow - and Winters contributes just the right amount of vulgarity as Lo's mother. Kubrick manages to handle the moral and psychological nuances with surprising lucidity, but the decision to indulge Peter Sellers' gift for mimickry in the role of Quilty tends to scupper the movie's tone. Fascinating, nevertheless.

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Release details

UK release:

1961

Duration:

153 mins

Cast and crew

Director:

Stanley Kubrick

Cast:

Gary Cockrell, Jerry Stovin, Diana Decker, Peter Sellers, Shelley Winters, Sue Lyon, James Mason, Marianne Stone

Music:

Nelson Riddle

Art Director:

William Andrews

Editor:

Anthony Harvey

Cinematography:

Oswald Morris

Screenwriter:

Vladimir Nabokov

Producer:

James B Harris

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Rated as: 4/5 (1 rating)

  • Very good movie that is not like the book, but good on its own terms. Like Barry Lyndon, the humor is subtle but very funny about how Whites handle their emotional relationships - all the while pretending that they are above that sort of thing. The talk about passion is a mere substitute for the real thing here and one almost feels sorry that the desperation for love should attach itself so inappropriately to a precocious young girl who knows how to milk it for all it is worth.

    Frank TALKER Thu Aug 9 2012
    Rated as: 4/5
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