Whenever I see La Paura I think of it as a companion piece to Eyes Wide Shut, or maybe it is the other way around. Adultery makes both films tick but in different ways. I think Phillip French was right on the money when he pointed out a Wizard of Oz thing in Kubrick's last work. Like Dorothy, Tom and Nicole go through fantasies and nightmares and at the end Dorothy's reassuring childish motto "there's no place like home" is ironically updated to the adult circumstantial adage "there's no sex like marital sex". Kubrick's take is intellectual, he never leaves the world of ideas to touch the ground. He taunts the audience first with an erotic movie and then with a thriller and refuses to deliver either of them. He was married to his third wife for 40 years, until he died. Rossellini was still married to Ingrid Bergman when he directed La Paura; they had been adulterous lovers and their infidelity widely criticized La Paura is a tale, a noirish one. The noir intrigue is solved and the tale has a happy ending. The city is noir; the country is tale, the territory where childhood is possible. The transition is operated in the most regular way: by car, a long-held shot taken from the front of the car as it rides into the road, as if we were entering a different dimension. Irene (Bergman) starts the movie: we just see a dark city landscape but her voice-over narration tells us of her angst and informs us that the story is a flashback, hers. Bergman's been cheating on her husband. At first guilt is just psychological torture but soon expands into economic blackmail and then grows into something else. From beginning to end the movie focuses on what Bergman feels, every other character is there to make her feel something. Only when the director gives away the plot before the main character can find out does he want us to feel something Bergman still can't. When she finds out, we have already experienced the warped mechanics of the situation and we may focus once again on the emotional impact it has on Bergman's Irene. In La Paura treasons are not imagined but real, nightmares are deliberate and the couple's venom suppurates in bitter ways. Needless to say, Ingrid has another of her rough rides in the movies but Rossellini doesn't dare put her away as he did in Europa 51, nor does he abandon her to the inscrutable impassivity of nature (Stromboli). His gift is less transcendent and fragile than the conclusion of Viaggio in Italia. He just gives his wife as much of a fairy tale ending as a real woman can have, a human landscape where she can finally feel at home. Back to the country, a half lit interior scene where shadows suggest the comfort of sleep. After all, it's the "fairy godmother" who speaks the last words in the movie.
近期最佳。外化的凶狠可能是伪装，内化的凶狠步步为营，掏心划肺。每个人物都丰满有趣，来有来处，只是这去处需要你好好分辨。
生活本身的荒诞已远远大过艺术加工时，电影便不再具备魔力。
七分
前半段不太行…后半段Peter黑化勉强救场。卷福不错。拜托文学改编请别再搞章回体（今年这都第几部了…
连贯性不是很好，卷福演的挺好，可能从前演过的角色太深入人心了吧，导致感觉上形象太过英伦范儿，看上去今年也是要拿影帝的节奏啊。其实这个男主更适合马修麦康纳来演。
女性主义电影未必要将镜头对准女性，也可以以女性视角讲述男性
一个彻头彻尾的悲剧。在以“坚硬无情”为猎标的男性气质完全笼罩的荒凉土地上，一切浪漫、美好和柔弱的事物都会走向死亡。人们在这样的荒凉中逐渐畸变。两个男性不管是以粗砺还是以柔弱示人，内在贯彻的都是“以牙还牙以血还血”的残酷法则。
毫无耐心地看完前一半，两个月后看完后一般整个人爆炸。人物散落在每一个缓慢的时间符号中，立体，透明，看到自身
本尼表演的简短有力的一部，悲剧性从粗鲁的表现和被别人厌弃的剧情中透出。看不进去前半段就沉闷伦理，看进去了就有很多铺垫伏笔。最后所谓的反转，意料之外，情理之中，其实也不算意料之外
很棒，以为是断背山，结果暗地里一把刀，精彩。
人死后头发还在长？
好毒一Peter，看似柔弱却心怀诡计。
蛮傲娇和幼腹黑的故事，前摇太长，年代氛围制作的好。
拍得像三十年前的电影，隐晦克制到极点，不知道还以为海斯法典还没废除呢……主演应该找马修麦康纳啊，简直绝配，那种重度直男癌晚期大男子主义控制狂以及隐约的崆峒及深柜倾向，不就是马修麦康纳本人吗？配乐很不错加一星
我去，到底卷福是怎么死的。小卷腹炭疽了老卷福
Just mind-blowing！每一秒都讽刺的恰到好处，feels fucking ridiculous, 但就像一面现实的镜子，每一幕都在过去的两年看到过。
唉，虽然有些不太喜欢的部分，但还是共情了。
他脱下手套握住他胳膊的那一刻，他以为是男孩懵懂的温柔，却不知他正宣判着他的死期。
“Deliver my soul from the sword，my darling from the power of the dog”。看似Peter从Phil的冷眼中拯救了Rose，但实则是一个“俄狄浦斯”少年阉割父权完成了自我的“成人礼”。坎皮恩太擅长在大全景下描摹人物性格了，钢琴课如此，犬之力亦如此。人物刻画、细节展现、音乐编排满分。奥斯卡欠她的应该是时候还给她了。
卷福的表演和摄影是唯二的亮点。有人说邓斯特表演也很不错，我却讨厌她那永远长不大的娃娃脸和腔调，如果非要用她，把身份设定改成瘦弱男的姐姐，可能还有一定可信度。
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