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LOLITA   
Released by Fox Entertainment. Available to buy now.

Vladimir Nabokov’s novel has always been controversial and the two movies that have been made based on the book have attracted similar levels of controversy, first was Stanley Kubrick’s early 1960’s version  with Sue Lyon as an over aged Lolita and then in 1997 came Adrian Lyne’s version.

Now Lyne’s version is released in a special edition by Fox. The movie of course attracted a huge level of publicity on its initial  release particularly because Dominique Swain as the eponymous Lolita really was under age. The plot sees Jeremy Irons play the wonderfully named Humbert Humbert who is an English college professor, it’s the early 1940’s and Humbert is lodging with Charlotte Haze (Melanie Griffith) whilst on his summer vacation, before too long he has developed very strong feelings for Charlotte’s young teenage daughter (Swain) even going so far as to marry Charlotte in order to remain close to Lolita , from there things get increasingly out of hand.

It’s hard to talk non judgmentally about Lolita considering it touches on the subject of paedophilia, made for US cable TV but given a mainstream cinema release in many places Lolita does look good, Lyne throws in some great cinematography but the movie leaves a huge sour taste in the mouth that no amount of soft focus shooting can take away, this release does have a good extras collection though.

EXTRAS: A commentary from Adrian Lyne (some key info on his dealing with the subject), 9 deleted scenes,   Domnique Swain’s screen test, a dodgy featurette on the making of the movie, the theatrical trailer and cast and crew bios.