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Memorable
quotes:
1)Humbert:
What I heard then was the melody of children at play. Nothing but that. And I
knew that the hopelessly poignant thing was not Lolita's absence from my side,
but the absence of her voice from that chorus.
2)Humbert: A normal man, given a group photograph
of school girls and asked to point out the loveliest one, will not necessarily
choose the nymphet among them.
3)Humbert: [Of his childhood love, Annabel] The shock
of her death froze something in me. The child I loved was gone, but I kept looking
for her -- long after I had left my own childhood behind. The poison was in the
wound, you see. And the wound wouldn't heal.
4)Humbert:
I looked and looked at her, and I knew, as clearly as I know that I will die,
that I loved her more than anything I had ever seen or imagined on earth. She
was only the dead-leaf echo of the nymphet from long ago -- but I loved her, this
Lolita, pale and polluted and big with another man's child. She could fade and
wither -- I didn't care. I would still go mad with tenderness at the mere sight
of her face.
Review:
Lolita,
a film adapted from Vladimir Nabokov's classic novel, is a study of obsessiveness
and lost adolescent love. Jeremy Irons (Waterland,
Reversal of Fortune, The Mission) and Dominique Swain are exceptional.
Irons was born to play this part. As one film critic put it, "no contemporary
actor is so adept at portraying the hollowness of men lost in doomed loves."
The cinematography is beautiful, the score is haunting, and the use of Irons voice
for the narrative is perfect. It is tragic that the U.S. only played this film
in a few select theaters due to it's controversial subject matter. Largely overlooked,
I believe Adrian Lyne's (Jacobs Ladder, Fatal
Attraction) Lolita is one of those films that won't be fully appreciated
until years later. -Review by Aaron Caldwell
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