Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

Contentar Best movie of this year hands down!

Humbersi The first must-see film of the year.

Anoushka Slater While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

davidcarniglia A daring drama, full of irony and nutty relationships. At the center would be Lolita, very well portrayed by Sue Lyon. Shelley Winters, as her mom Charlotte, sees her more as a rival than as a daughter. She jealously calls her "a homely child." On the other hand, James Mason, who could be a surrogate parent to her, wants Lolita as a lover. Charlotte's problem is that she's stuck at the same emotional level as Lolita. She says she still "feels young" but has become a pretentious bore with her "Van Gawk" Van Gogh. Humbert's relationship with Charlotte is an ironic inversion of his affair with Lolita. He could care less about Charlotte, but uses her to get closer to Lolita. As much as he adores Lolita, she uses him to suit herself.Her character can't really be faulted. She's certainly aware of the effect she has on guys of all ages; but she's a confident outgoing teen who likes to have fun with people...sometimes a little too much fun. Humbert knows exactly what he's doing, even if he doesn't know why. We don't get to see what his ex-wife was like, so we don't know why he ends up in strange relationships. He must be miserable when he's with Charlotte, and he's never really secure with Lolita either. Even if she weren't underage and technically his stepdaughter, she's so mercurial she would annoy him anyway. In some ways, though, she's the most mature one. She's a little unsure of herself, but isn't afraid to try new activities, and fits in well with all of her peers and mentors (Humbert being a special case, to say the least). Her most poignant line "I want you to be proud, really proud of me," even though it would better said to her mom instead of Humbert, shows that she feels good about herself.By the end, she's very much a young adult. She still seems cheery, even with the huge responsibility of marriage, running a house, and carrying a baby. In these rather desperate circumstances, one has the impression that she'll be fine. Strangely enough, when Humbert comes to visit, he seems to almost fit in. He's given the respect due to an older relative who's also a benefactor. But she wisely refuses to junk everything and run off with him.The one who seems out of place is Peter Sellers. He tends to throw the drama off-track with his idiosyncratic characters. The scene at the hotel when he pretends to be a cop is especially distracting. It's amusing for a few seconds, but he just goes on and on. He's a sort of grotesque foil for Humbert. I don't see the point of the frame story either. Why would Humbert kill him? Sure, he's a 'rival' of sorts; but by this point, Humbert has seen Lolita settle down permanently. Every guy but her husband is banished to the fantasyland she once lived in.Another bit I couldn't figure out was why Humbert would wait to tell Lolita that her mom was dead. It seemed unnecessarily cruel to make up a story about her being in the hospital. It's also odd that Lolita spends the total of one night grieving. Anyway, a really well-made film on a difficult topic with some fine performances.

elvircorhodzic LOLITA is a black comedy drama, which, in an unserious way, examines serious psychological problems. It is based on the novel of the same name by Vladimir Nabokov.The film begins with the verbal conflict between the two men. One man is drunk and maybe stoned, his opponent is desperate and angry. Their conflict has ended with a tragic outcome. The film then flashes back to events four years earlier. A distinguished professor arrives in Ramsdale, New Hampshire, intending to spend the summer before his professorship begins at Beardsley College, Ohio. He has found a room to rent at a house of a cloying and sexually frustrated widow. The professor becomes infatuated with her overly flirtatious daughter. He has married a frustrated widow, in order to stay close to the object of his desire. However, their "daughter" is in a summer camp for girls. He lives with her mother, forced to fulfill his conjugal duties. He becomes more withdrawn, and his brassy wife more whiny. She discovers his diary entries detailing his passion for her daughter...This film can be seen as a sort of a social incident. This should not be reduced to the relationship between a perverse underage girl and middle-aged man, who has disturbed libido. All characters are somehow disturbed and unhappy. That is perhaps more important for this story. It is very difficult to recognize the love and passion as emotions among the main protagonists. Simply, this is a tragedy with comic and ironic reflections on a very important psychological problems, which are a reflection of a subjective society.This is not a shameful review of something disgusting. This is an inappropriate fun, which is decorated with a very strange styles and a pretty good acting. Characterization is very good.James Mason as Humbert "Hum" Humbert is mentally unstable and obsessive-minded man, who comes from the quiet love phase to the phase of the jealousy, confusion and despair at the end. Sue Lyon as Dolores "Lolita" Haze is a spoiled and lonely brat, who has to grow up very quickly. Her feelings are absolutely vague. She, practically, is not ready for some major life decisions, even though Mr. Kubrick has made, from that fact, a contrast with her stepfather at the end of the film.Peter Sellers as Clare Quilty is a cunning and dark artist. He is a disturbed reflection of Humbert's character. His mystical and patchy appearance is almost outstanding. He is a thread that connects a killer and a victim in one figure.Shelley Winters as Charlotte Haze-Humbert is an unhappy mother, a widow ... wife. She is a woman who looks for love at the wrong address. It was obvious from the start.This is too serious to be fun, but it's fun.

Smoreni Zmaj Lolita from 1997. always was one of my very favorites, and rare example of movie better than the book. When I saw this one for the first time I was a kid and I could not stand black and white movies, but I still decided to watch it because of my love towards the book and movie from 90's. Unfortunately, 160 minutes of black and white was too much for me. 20 years later I finally watched the whole thing and I definitely recommend it to everyone who didn't see it yet. And newer one too. And the book. How could I even think that Kubrick could fail... I'm ashamed.

Dalbert Pringle And just like 2005's "Hard Candy" - 1962's "Lolita" also featured a very precocious and viciously calculating underage girl of just 14 who (though she was being wantonly pursued by men old enough to be her father) turned out to be (in my opinion) an even more despicable "predator" than they were. It's true.I can't begin to tell you how much this gutter-level, white-trash, Stanley Kubrick production made my skin crawl with complete revulsion. And, out of all of the characters presented in this story, there wasn't even one who was in the least bit likable.It was especially Sue Lyon's haughty portrayal of the slutty, demanding, snot-nosed Lolita character (as well as Peter Seller's slimy, quirky and totally irksome Clare Quilty character) that definitely lost this contemptible picture some significant points in my books.