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Harvard Film Archive. "Lolita" at 5 p.m."La Grande Illusion" at 7:30 p.m. "The Double Lifeof Veronique" at 10 p.m. Carpenter Center. $5 forstudents...
After this low-rent Lolita seduces Jeremy, she is almost immediately stricken with a fatally incurable disease, presumably as punishment for her sins, and dies, not as a result of her illness, but inexplicably, in a car accident. Lady Henrietta and Jeremy console each other and move in together, presumably to cohabitate in happiness...
Because of the novel's subject matter, it will inevitably be compared to Nabokov's Lolita (which Filipacchi has said that she has never read) and will fare badly. The wave of publicity, some of which borders on adulatory, which has accompanied the release of this novel reflects the increasing focus on form over content. Toss this on the bonfire of the inanities...
...this story. Including viewers of the three schlockudramas that NBC, CBS and ABC began filming in late November and, in some Olympic sprint of sleaze, got on the air last week. Americans by the megamillions watched, on one network or another, the saga of teenage Amy (the "Long Island Lolita"), Joey Buttafuoco (her alleged lover) and his wife Mary Jo (whom Amy shot in the head). Now that the TV-movie epidemic is over, everyone has a bad case of remorse. Is there a morning-after pill for pop cultural guilt...
...Annaud trusts Duras's words -- the book's famous final declaration of passion fulfilled and love unrequited -- so that this tale of two people at their pleasures achieves the gravity of a medieval myth. Lionel Trilling wrote that Lolita was "not about sex, but about love." The Lover, on page and screen, is not about fornication; it is about fidelity, when an obsession becomes a religion...