This film was bizarrely accused of glamorising paedophilia, which would suggest that if you're a perv, lots of things are potentially pornographic. Since all the principals in Lolita (including Frank Langella's odious Quilty, Humbert's rival for possession of Lolita) come to calamitous ends, if ever a story clearly announced that sex crime doesn't pay, it's this one.

filming nabakovs book was never going to be easy.the only man for the job pulled it off with style,wit,humour and showed that although the source material could be difficult,the impossible could be achieved.yet another triumph for without doubt the worlds greatest film director.