Who's abusing Lolita now? A new film version of Nabokov's masterpiece is likely to be a travesty of the scandalous but tender original Nabokov's brilliance prepared the way for a new generation of expressionistic p rose The message of the book is that art promises everything and changes nothing

From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: January 4, 1995| Author: | Copyright information

First the bad news: Adrian Lyne is to make a film of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita. The novel is 40 years old this year. Perhaps, in general, that is too early to be sure. But I do not think so. Lolita is one of the great works of art of our age. Lyn e is not one of the great film-makers.

The book was first filmed in 1962. That version was directed by Stanley Kubrick, scripted by Nabokov and starred James Mason, Shelley Winters and Peter Sellers, a constellation of talent that resulted in an honourably good movie - "a wild, marvellously

enjoyable comedy" the critic Pauline Kael wrote - that ...

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