Lolita (1997)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Lolita |
| Original title | Lolita |
| Country of production | USA , France |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1997 |
| length | 132 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Adrian Lyne |
| script | Stephen Schiff |
| production |
Mario Kassar , Joel B. Michaels |
| music | Ennio Morricone |
| camera | Howard Atherton |
| cut |
David Brenner , Julie Monroe |
| occupation | |
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Lolita is an American-French film drama by Adrian Lyne from the year 1997 . Dominique Swain and Jeremy Irons played the leading roles .
The plot is based on the novel Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov from 1955. The novel was filmed in 1962 by Stanley Kubrick under the same title .
action
Humbert Humbert falls in love with a girl of the same age at the age of 14. However, this dies soon after of typhus , which affects him throughout his life.
In 1947, as an adult, he rents a room from the widow Charlotte Haze. He plans to spend the summer in New Hampshire and then take a position as a literature professor in Beardsley, Ohio . During his stay, he met the daughter of his landlady, the precocious 12-year-old Dolores, nicknamed "Lolita", with whom he fell in love immediately. Dolores begins to win him over by physically approaching him.
Some time later, Charlotte confesses her love for her lodger in a letter and asks him to leave the house before she comes back, as she would see his stay as a sign of mutual love. However, Humbert decides to stay and - although he despises the widow - marries Charlotte in order to be able to stay near Dolores. Charlotte Haze sends the girl with the braces to a summer camp soon afterwards, after which she is supposed to go straight to boarding school. Humbert is very concerned about this. His thoughts are only about Dolores; he sedates his wife with sleeping pills.
A few weeks later, Charlotte breaks open a locked drawer on his desk and discovers his diary in it, from which she learns of his dislike for her and his sexual obsession for Dolores. When Humbert comes home, she confronts him and tells him that he will never see Dolores again. Humbert goes into the kitchen and prepares two drinks. Then he found out by telephone that his wife, who had fled the house and ran into a car, is dead. Humbert burns the compromising letters in the fireplace of the house.
After Humbert has collected himself, he picks Dolores up early from the summer camp, but initially does not tell her about her mother's death. He and her go to a hotel where the two of them meet the playwright Clare Quilty for the first time. Clare Quilty shows his interest in Dolores.
Finally, Humbert informs Dolores of his mother's death. The two travel through America by car and develop a passionate liaison. On the way through the countries and places through which her journey leads, Humbert plagues his guilty conscience more and more. One day they settle in a small town in New England and begin a new life as father and daughter. Humbert continues to pursue his profession as a professor; Dolores, now 14 years old, goes to school.
When Humbert learns that Dolores has missed two piano lessons, which is unusual, a heated argument ensues, after which Dolores runs away. Humbert finds her in a pub and they decide to leave home and travel through America again. During this trip, as it turns out later, they are followed by Quilty, who is after Lolita. When Lolita had to be treated in the hospital for a viral illness, she was picked up one day after she was admitted to the hospital by Quilty, who presented himself to the hospital staff as Lolita's "Uncle Gustave". Humbert, driven by his despair over her disappearance, goes in search of her, but loses her track and returns home.
Three years later, Humbert receives a letter from Dolores. She is now married, pregnant and in need of money. He visits her and tries to persuade her to return to him, but she rejects him. He learns from Lolita that Quilty was the man who took her from the hospital that time, that he was making pornographic films with children and that Dolores was very attracted to him at the time and therefore went with him.
Humbert decides to shoot Quilty. When he breaks into Quilty's house one day, he finds his hebephile tendencies confirmed and also that Dolores wanted to come with him when he “kidnapped” her from the hospital. Quilty offers Humbert to move in with him; Humbert kills Quilty with four shots. Then he is followed by the police, who catch up with him.
The film ends with the recording that Humbert died in prison; also Dolores: shortly after him, on Christmas Day that same year.
Reviews
James Berardinelli wrote on ReelViews that the film was not provocative; the only pictures of the naked girl are out of focus. The topic of the sexual abuse of children is still uncomfortable for the distributors, the film waited a year for its release. The portrayal of Jeremy Irons makes the character of Humbert Humbert not a soulless monster, but a human being. Dominique Swain is playing her role perfectly.
Kenneth Turan wrote in the Los Angeles Times about the film's delayed release. It corresponds more to the novel than the film adaptation by Stanley Kubrick from 1962. A burden is the fact that the novel contains a lot of narration and only a few dialogues.
Awards
Dominique Swain won the Young Artist Award in 1999 ; she was nominated for the 1999 YoungStar Award and the Chicago Film Critics Association Award . Jeremy Irons and Dominique Swain were nominated for the 1999 MTV Movie Award .
backgrounds
Production costs were estimated at 58 million US dollars .
Natalie Portman was actually supposed to cast the role of Lolita. However, since she feared after the role of "Mathilda" in the film Léon - The Professional that she would forever be tied to the figure of the child seductress, she canceled.
"Lolita light of my life, fire of my loins" is the first sentence of the novel, which was used here as an introduction.
literature
- Vladimir Nabokov : Lolita . German translation by Helen Hessel with the assistance of Maria Carlsson, Gregor von Rezzori , Kurt Kusenberg and Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt , edited by Dieter E. Zimmer . (Revised edition, 10th edition.) Rowohlt-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2008, 517 pages, ISBN 978-3-499-22543-7 .
Web links
- Lolita in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Lolita at rotten tomatoes (English)
- Lolita at Metacritic (English)
- Comparison of the cut versions FSK 16 - FSK 18 by Lolita [1997] at Schnittberichte.com
- Lolita in the German dubbing index
- Michael Da Silva: On the Subjective Esthetic of Adrian Lyne's Lolita , senses of cinema, 2009
Individual evidence
- ^ Review by James Berardinelli
- ^ Critique by Kenneth Turan ( Memento from February 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Entry on abrauchen.de ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
