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.
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单一地点+老戏骨的组合很难不让人想到《困在时间里的父亲》，后者在影片技法上还是要更有层次一些，而这部电影的强势就在于每个段落高潮前的那一点铺垫，都恰到好处。
很硬的勾巴和很软的心肠，果然只存在于文艺作品之中🥲
如果说Daryl的肉体惊艳了我，那Emma的演技则让我佩服到五体投地...how could she be so perfectly beautiful, vulnerable and satisfied at the same time...Emma身体上的每一条皱纹都让我看到了岁月能带给人的智慧和美好
Emma Thompson太通透了，完全释放自我的一次表演，光芒万丈！女性导演才能拍出的细腻和女性心理。
有点像亚隆写的心理学小说，咨询师和访客相互治愈什么的。整个交互太像心理咨询了，作为性工作来说就太假太理想化了。一切哪有儿有那么美呢。作为美好小品类的电影来说，裸露也没必要(要露就多露点，男主角的居居只露了0.1秒，看都看不清。)
她跟男孩坦诚自己的无礼，表示对他工作的尊重理解，并为曾经给学生安上淫荡的污名道歉。
还可以，剧本没有很飞略失望，主要探讨的内容有点老生常谈，而且比较浅，真的就是“why do we have to wait until 2022 to see a film like this? ”似乎更像是上代人的回溯，不过艾玛的角色也让我对处于中年又为人父母的女性有了一丢丢新的认识，一种紧张与焦虑。男主眼睛蛮好看，这种水准的服务还要啥心理咨询啊。
挺可爱的，我愿称之为“成人童话”。讨论其现实可操作性没有意义，重要的是我们鲜少（几乎不）能在公共领域里看到中老年女性的爱欲话题，在“慕青”时代里，艾玛老师贡献了老年女性最有魅力、最动人的高潮微笑。
也许我们只要做到爱自己，享受性爱，享受愉悦，其他的都不那么重要了吧。
sex喜剧小品，轻松但也深刻，貌似单一的场景，恰如女主牢笼般的婚姻生活。男主真是梦中情鸭，专业！阿姨演技太棒了，换个人演真的会呕。讲的是女性的觉醒，但被人戳破马甲真的好可怕。
其实在讲性交易合法化之前我就已经度秒如年了，先不说又是女性面对欲望、接受自己的老一套，光是doi前啰啰嗦嗦半天像上亲子关系修复咨询课程就已经很让我犯困了。整洁私密的酒店房间，高素质女客户，优美高雅的男妓，互相尊重，彼此倾听，性交易合法，一切美好像个梦，可以的，富婆快乐球了解一下？
之前不少博主的文案让我以为这会是一部很猎奇的电影 以为顶天也就讲讲“老年人也有春天”这回事 没想到除了买可乐之外97分钟里对家庭不同generation观念的矛盾、婚后/中老年女性生活质量、特殊工作者的看法等展开了如此细致且真实的探讨 无论代入哪一方都能共情 比预想中的要温馨许多 要知道这要换了个普通男导演可能就要俗太多了 感谢汤普森阿姨在这样一部很有意义的电影里献出了精彩且牺牲很大的表演 看到她端详镜子里自己不再年轻的身体却能愉悦自己像个小女生那样容光焕发 作为观众的我真想为她鼓掌
圣丹斯电影节总会带来惊喜。简单至极的电影场景，复杂的人物对话，以对白驱动故事发展，好像也多如牛毛，但这部片子有许多讨巧之处。女性导演在探讨女性内心，本身就很有看点。
事实证明再简单的剧情和场景还是可以不断挖掘出小惊喜的，两个人的内心世界通过台词不断得以展现，电影在单调的场景内也尽量控制住了节奏，让整个人物和剧情显得愈加有趣立体以及丰满。
我无法开心地看待这个片子：女人的独白/忧虑/恐惧全部都是真实的，但除了这些，所有都是不真实的：没有这样的男人，过度浪漫化的sex work。对我来讲这是一部色彩缤纷的电影，像糖果一样，但是你不能给受困于饥饿的人吃糖，你懂吗？they never tell the Bside: whether they pretend its not there or they just dont care. They are denying the Bside.
另外性解放依然应该以道德和法律为基础，片子里探寻的道路太不符合现实了。
汤普森阿姨依旧演技炸裂；男主有着古希腊雕塑般的诱惑。阿姨说，sexual fulfillment是很powerful的，让人alive。幸好没有等到老了才明白，感恩一路走来的那些人。
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3、致那些勇敢追求幸福和快乐的人们：Good luck!
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