1997 ["Adrian Lyne"]

Lolita

Name: Lolita
Genre: [, ", r, m, a
Released: 1997
Rating: 6.8

★ 6.8 IMDb

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.

Essays and Criticism

On this film

On the Subjective Æsthetic of Adrian Lyne’sLolita by Michael Da Silva, Senses of Cinema

In conversation with other films

“I get sort of carried away, being so normal and everything”: the oscillating sexuality of Clare Quilty and Humbert Humbert in the works of Nabokov, Kubrick and Lyne by Emerson Richards, Alphaville

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