Because I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me; the carriage held but just ourselves and immortality” – Emily Dickinson
If Death took a holiday, the guns would go silent in Iraq, the slaughter on our nation’s highways would cease, and the news media would be compelled to cover positive events in the humanities, arts, and sciences. Unfortunately, Death has not had a vacation in recorded history, but Mitchell Leisen’s 1934 fantasy, Death Takes a Holiday, allows us to consider the possibility. Co-written by Maxwell Anderson and Gladys Lehman and based on the play "La Morte in Vacanza" by Alberto Casella, Death Takes a Holiday stars Frederic March as the Grim Reaper who takes on human form in an attempt to discover why men fear him so much. Why he has waited 5,000 years to satisfy this curiosity is not explained.
[Spoiler] After a brief tryout as a shadowy figure who scares the daylights out of those that cross his path, Death shows up at, of all places, an upscale party at an Italian villa, posing as the mysterious Prince Sirki. Only one person knows who he really is, the host Duke Lambert (Guy Standing), and he is sworn to secrecy. Sirki proceeds to fascinate the guests. Given to bursts of wit and poetry, he can just as quickly turn sullen and threatening, and some soon find out that it is better not to look too deeply into his eyes. During the three days in which the Prince is at the villa, however, people all over the world miraculously escape death and potential suicides are doomed to frustration.
To see what’s behind all the conversation about love, the suave but naïve Prince Sirki falls for the irresistible Grazia (Evelyn Venable), the daughter of one of Duke’s friends. Grazia knows who Death is but does not fear him, much to the chagrin of her fiancé, Corrado (Kent Taylor) who has developed a strong disdain for Prince Charming.
More sinister than Brad Pitt in the 1998 remake Meet Joe Black, March turns in a very convincing performance as the creepy yet strangely appealing guest. Although the ending is melodramatic, the emotions are very real and the suggestion that Death may in reality be a friend disguised as a foe is quite touching.
(Howard Schumann, talkingpix.co.uk)
In this wearisome and predictable plot line, Death falls in love and bores us to death talking about it.
(Dennis Schwartz, homepages.sover.net)
I've heard DRACULA was advertised with the tag line "The Weirdest Love Story ever told!" (this is probably a paraphrase), but at heart, I've never felt that you could honestly call that movie a love story. The tag line would be much more appropriate for this one, since it ultimately boils down to what amounts to a love story. This movie is very good indeed, particularly if you consider that it is built around a concept that could have easily been handled in a cute or facile manner. Instead, it is handled as seriously as possible, with some real thought put into how death would try to come to terms with a life and an outlook that was to that point totally unfamiliar to him; much of the credit does go to Fredric March in the title role. It's quite scary when it needs to be, particularly during the first twenty minutes. From then on, it deals with its themes with subtlety, a quiet wit, an enduring sadness, and an everpresent tension on how Death might react if crossed. It's not perfect; some of the dialogue is self-conscious and artificial, as if the writers knew they were dealing with weighty issues and were trying to be profound. But I am certainly glad they didn't try to turn it into a musical comedy of sorts.
(Dave Sindelar, scifilm.org)
See also the remake: Death Takes A Holiday (1971)
更喜欢心猿意马这版翻译名 leo怎么人到中年说话奶声奶气 还这么黏女儿
文化部还投钱拍，佩服
低配弱化版《花束般的恋爱》。已婚但对自由踌躇空虚的女性，仅仅因为侧颜相同而受到心机引诱陷入爱情的男性，将人物复杂矛盾的特性用所谓甜蜜温吞的青春桥段掩盖，将女主符号化让男主俗套得成长，用爱情线极度冲淡了友人在现实社会追逐梦想从而对男主的影响和冲击，怎么能够做到几乎避开所有剧作能够提供的出彩点的。黑岛结菜耐看灵动，徘徊在稚气和成熟之间，近乎完美的恋人角色，但和角色的复杂性好像有些出入。
雷霆下的舞太戳我了！电影前面琐碎凌乱分散的 积蓄了一定的感受，后半段感受多次喷涌。需要一定代入感。激动一下，拉满。
帅哥禁得起怼脸直拍啊 人到中年满地鸡毛 但生活还是得继续 激情戏唯美 送走女儿之后那段很感人
在爱人面前发疯似的挽回那已经支离破碎的爱情，在女儿面前极力地做好一位父亲，却总是不尽人意……
22_020。可以的，倒也不是一般的喜剧，比喜剧还多了一点正经和温馨？但有些地方也挺好笑的。导演之前是演员啊
配乐很不错。
我从来没有感觉如此窒息过。
生活里的bipolar够多了，电影还拍个没完.......
still learning to love / will stumble and fall
讲了三对感情：作家和学生、前妻和朋友、儿子和邻居。
和自己和解，和生活和解。男神 Leonardo Sbaraglia依舊非常迷人。
前半段感觉还是挺有意思挺不错的片子，后半段直接一个闷棍打过来原来是讲婚外恋，有的时候真的搞不懂岛国编剧，可能婚外情的爱情故事才是岛国现实的写照吧，剧情反转的有点猝不及防
其实应该算是家庭题材吧，不用特别强调一些tag，男主一直都在尝试和自己和解，和女儿和解，追求自己想要的生活，追求所爱。
Santiago好像搞砸了每件事，但正如朋友说的，那是他对每件事都太努力，太想爱，人生始终缠绕在童年缺失的爱的阴影下，所以对每个人都付出的精疲力竭，而爱又是相互的，太多的爱会压垮另一方。结尾场景不再摇摇晃晃，语调也平和了很多，叔算是找到了新的生活。ps有个懂你的朋友太好了。
前半段不错，后面不太行，黑岛结菜好好看！井上祐贵好帅，帅过男主。
可不可以让我再让我再一次回到那个美丽世界里找自己
肉体的欢愉中夹着无影不在的孤独和迷失。男主终于正面背面全裸，让男女观众大饱眼福，可惜再帅的美男也抵挡不住岁月的无情，水桶腰多少要扣掉1分，哈哈哈。
总而言之还看得下去。一些小桥段的设计，颇有意思，像浓缩电视剧的电影。北村有一种不愿做“小三”的可怜气质，蛮少有的。
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