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Lolita

1997

Adrian Lyne

Jeremy Irons, Dominique Swain, Melanie Griffith, Frank Langella ...

6.0

11,359

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.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Time Out	"The movie is neither sensationalist nor unintelligent, and some may even find the performances finally achieve a genuine poignancy."	POS
United States	Caryn James The New York Times	"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."	POS
United States	David Denby New York Magazine	"It is a dizzying, morally dangerous work – and an extraordinary entertainment"	POS
United Kingdom	Angie Errigo Empire	"[A] well-done version of Vladimir Nabokov's controversial but acclaimed, now classic novel (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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