Lolita
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“How did they ever make a movie of Lolita?” asked the ads for Stanley Kubrick’s slyly sardonic adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov’s seemingly unfilmable novel, a movie that plays its scandalous source material as a darkly comic, unsettlingly absurdist portrait of twisted obsession and romantic delusion. James Mason is Humbert Humbert, the European literature professor abroad in America whose illicit infatuation with Lolita (Sue Lyon), the adolescent daughter of his landlady (Shelley Winters), drives him to ever more amoral depths of paranoia, degradation, and destructive jealousy. As Humbert’s menacingly enigmatic nemesis Clare Quilty, Peter Sellers displays the brilliance for protean comic improvisation that he would soon deploy with full force in Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. (criterion.com)
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