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.
过气演员大联欢。也许19世纪的东西真的不适合21世纪了。我们看巴尔扎克，就像剧里的人拿脏水泼的拉辛一样陈腐。想起老王说19世纪，the nineteenth century dislike of Realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass; the nineteenth century dislike of Romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass.
拍巴尔扎克的作品真的很少见。里面还有多兰，开始还以为我认错了，不看身高的话颜值很打眼，而且演得挺不错啊。
他将停止幻想，他将开始生活，他将找到内心的力量。
我就担心他儿子独自走出不到五里，被人抢个精光，打个半残。
人间喜剧，根据原著改编的很好，追名逐利的最后失去了很多，原来一切都是幻灭。
★★★★ 乡下文学小青年到巴黎大都市的体验生活来了，来时雄心壮志，去时看透炎凉，巴黎虽大，终不是自己的家。
选择本片不是因为豆瓣7分➕，也不是因为获得凯撒奖，更不是因为本杰明瓦赞这位号称法国最佳新人，主要是因为看到评论说本片完全忠于原著，而巴尔扎克一直是本人比较欣赏的作家之一，他刻薄的语言，尖锐的视角，大胆辛辣的讽刺都是我喜欢的类型，看完果然名副其实，对于法国当时保皇派和自由派的争夺也有了更进一步的了解，好片，值得推荐！
Very unsurprising movie. It’s grand and intricate, in a neutral way
评论里一个个都是好journaliste，我只信🍍
7.5吧，很多情节放在如今也毫不违和，不愧是巴尔扎克。时长原因，虽然有趣但还是看到疲倦。
2022年4月20日观看。没读过原著，但这片子拍的还不错。
Je pense à ceux qui doivent trouver en eux quelque chose après le désenchantement.
他是下河洗干净呢，还是投水幻灭？很喜欢巴黎鳞次栉比的小剧场。
全世界法语电影和画外音最配。问题是这种伎俩的画外音简直让导演成了废物。要你何用？全都靠说了还拍什么电影。印厂曾经也是浪漫的，手工永远比工业大生产有情怀。
声色犬马，物欲横流。空中楼阁，一朝倾塌。巴尔扎克的原著讽刺辛辣，针砭时弊。如今改编成影视，却中规中矩，鲜有亮点。个别或犀利或有趣的台词也不过是仰仗了原著的功劳。所以亦只能说是无功无过而已。不过值得一提的是，多兰的角色发挥空间不大，但是作为一个配角却屡屡出场都能抢走些许主角的风采，确实表现得不错，抓住了人物的精髓，在有限的表演空间里做到最好，难怪能收获凯撒奖的提名。不过本片在一众电影节大热中拿下凯撒奖最佳影片，多少可以见得凯撒奖还是有些保守的。
资本的世界，都是玩物，有权有财，才是赢家—导演李玉超
极具天赋的文艺青年的幻灭之路。在他摸清了巴黎新闻界的些许皮毛之后，一度曾十分自负的认为自己拥有了全世界，而在那短暂的虚荣巅峰之后，他为自己的狂妄付出了代价。巴黎从未向谁真正敞开尊贵的大门，盛宴之下，满目疮痍，人人都是小丑，人人皆为蝼蚁。这是200年前的巴黎，也是现在。
The illusion called capitalism
了不起的巴尔扎克，关于新闻的讽刺太应景了。本片也精心制作，不辜负名著。
他来过，他体验过，他厌倦，他失望，他走了。
Copyright © 2015-2023 All Rights Reserved
