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5.0 out of 5 stars
Great film!!, April 14 2010
By C. Davis "Chris" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Lolita (DVD)
Lolita has a great story with an excellent cast.Lolita is a 1997 drama film directed by Adrian Lyne and is the second screen adaptation of the novel of the same name by Vladimir Nabokov. The film stars Jeremy Irons as Humbert Humbert and Dominique Swain as Dolores "Lolita" Haze, with supporting roles by Melanie Griffith as Charlotte Haze, and Frank Langella as Clare Quilty. It concerns the story of an English professor's obsession with his landlady's flirtatious daughter, and his desiring attempts to possess her. Lolita was originally filmed by Stanley Kubrick in 1962, when much of the novel's content was toned down significantly due to censorship restrictions. In a less conservative era, British director Adrian Lyne began filming his own adaptation.
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Lolita is totally worth getting on DVD!!
(The DVD sold by Amazon is in fact a Chinese DVD version of Lolita, but plays on all DVD players.)
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
extremely poor copy - misrepresented here., Dec 9 2011
By K. Rose - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Lolita (DVD)
What they do not tell you when you purchase this movie is that:1: it is an EXTREMELY low resolution copy. It's like a copy of a copy of a copy that someone took from a VHS from when it played on TV and then burned to a DVD using a cheap burner on a laptop in somebody's dorm room.
And 2: the subtitles are mandatory. You can either watch it with english subtitles or chinese subtitles, but there will be subtitles.
I cannot believe that there is not a legitimate DVD copy of this movie anywhere, and I can't believe that Amazon is allowing this to be represented as if it were a legitimate copy.
Shame on the seller and shame on amazon!
14 of 18 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Beautifully done, Mar 26 2010
By taaj - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Lolita (DVD)
Lolita is a horribly disturbing tale of pedophilia and the lengths that some people will go to to pursue it and disguise it. It's very hard to watch. In fact, the first time I tried to watch it, I couldn't. That said, it's beautifully done and perfectly cast. I am not normally a fan of Melanie Griffith, but she is superb in being a naive female who has a smattering of jealousy for her blossoming daughter. She appears genuine in her desire to be loved and respectable. Dominique Swain does an absolutely fantastic job of moving between the vulnerable little girl who wants a daddy and the budding teen. She tries to desperately to be as grown up as the role she is thrust into, but you can't help but see through to the tender little girl. Jeremy Irons is wonderful. You can see his mind calculating then fighting against itself. He's supposed to be Lolita's dad, and sometimes acts like it, but we can see Lolita taking the power away from him. In the end, Jeremy Iron's explanations and excuses for his failings expose his mental illness to the world. The last picture we see of Lolita barefoot, poor and pregnant is all that could be expected after being so horribly abandoned by her dad, neglected by her mom, and used by the other men in her life that she just wanted to love. I'm not a pedophile so I can't tell you if this is a realistic view of how it could be, but it rings true. It's full of contradictions, pain, joy, and confusion- just like life.
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