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Lolita, 1962
English
UK
Profile of Lolita
Lolita can be described as sexy, cynical, and sexual. The plot revolves around forbidden love, a destructive relationship, and obsession. Its comic aspect comes from satire. Lolita's main genres are drama, independent, and romance. In terms of style, it is talky. In approach, it is serious and realistic. Lolita is slow paced. It is set, at least in part, in a small town. It is located in New Hampshire. Lolita takes place in the 1950s. It is based on a book. The movie has received attention for being a classic, controversial, and a masterpiece.
Summary of Lolita
Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's controversial Lolita is a wicked satire of sexual obsession, sadomasochism, and fetishism. When mild-mannered professor Humbert Humbert (James Mason) arrives in the small town of Ramsdale, New Hampshire, he is immediately set upon by his landlady, Charlotte Haze (Shelley Winters), and her adolescent daughter, Lolita (Sue Lyon). Although Humbert gets involved with Charlotte, it is Lolita with whom he becomes obsessed. When Charlotte sends her daughter away to summer camp (the aptly named Camp Climax), Humbert becomes consumed with jealousy. He finally takes Lolita out of camp and heads out alone with her. He is pestered along the way by Clare Quilty (played magnificently by Peter Sellers), who threatens to expose him. But nothing can break the hold Lolita has over Humbert.
From the opening credits sequence--a close-up of a man's hand (with a wedding ring) carefully polishing a young girl's toenails--Kubrick's biting, darkly comic Lolita burns with sexual energy as it follows the debasement of an intelligent, worldly man in a series of carefully choreographed long takes that boil over with psychosexual tension. Although little physical contact is shown, Kubrick hints at it beautifully, especially in the drive-in scene in which both Charlotte and Lolita grab on to Humbert's hands. And yet given the serious nature of the subject matter, Kubrick pauses long enough to include a riotous slapstick scene of Humbert and a bellhop struggling over a cot as Lolita sleeps quietly on the bed, as well as Quilty playing Ping-Pong with a seemingly endless supply of balls. Stanley Kubrick's highly controversial masterwork is a fascinating look at pedophilia and sexual taboos that lead to obsession and murder.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | UK |
| Release date: | 12 June 1962 |
| Runtime: | 152 min |
Cast and Crew
as Prof. Humbert Humbert
as Charlotte Haze
as Clare Quilty
as Lolita
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- 25.March.2011
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- by: Jim T
- Jim T rated this movie
10/10Must See
- 20.March.2009
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- by: sethdellinger
- sethdellinger rated this movie
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