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)
什么！他们居然没去fuji rock！太让我失望了！
定式日本青春电影。《鸟唱》的黎明深蓝，《花束》的亚比喜好，再加点反转，再加点懊悔，就成了这样的带有无数前人影子的商业青春电影。黑岛结菜真可爱啊，北村匠海总带着一种颓废的不可靠感，能把这两个人的床戏拍得这么平庸、甚至糟糕其实也算一种本事了。3.5归3。
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
1⃣不家暴
观感很差，剧本台词都没写好，感觉很塌，又仿佛在说教
FEFF24
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。
2022年除夕下午，电影里在巴西跨年，我在房山过春节，电影里的烟花和窗外的烟花一起燃放，一场跟自己内心的对话，虽然很多问题还是没搞懂，但平和一点。人的孤独，渴望爱与被爱。
好看
看失意中年男子尝试走回生活正规可太有趣了
我真的长大了，现在看这种电影已经没有浪漫的想法了。为数不多的感受就是职场上能遇到这种好朋友真难得，怎么能在不喜欢的岗位上坚持那么多年真厉害云云。我觉得男主就是个很多人在生活中都能遇到，不起眼的小角色。但我觉得他好厉害
不知道这个片名怎么翻译的，以及看者寥寥低分评价却这么多的原理是啥，但这片子真的很好笑啊，镜头语言细腻又跳脱，很像身边神经大条的朋友拍着你的肩膀给你讲笑话。而且主线很清晰啊，一个江郎才尽正愁着怎么应付死亡deadline的中年男作家，莫名被自己的男学生表白，作家本想置之不理，可偏偏男学生又极有才华，切带来了能帮作家脱困的处女作…….可能因为前面对于作家的生活做了太长的铺垫，显得主线不够清晰，不过看进去之后真的很好玩，我个人也非常喜欢情感正浓时突然用搞笑桥段收尾的处理方式。
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……
男主很帅，尺度很大。
It’s an Argentine guy who feels lost with sex love family and life, with his ex boyfriend, who left him not for before, his daughter, who is leaving for university, his mom, who died later in the movie and his ex wife, who has another man now.
她们爱上你的敏感与纤细，她们留给你支离破碎。
非英语对白的基片真的很难入戏，演员颜值在线，奈何剧情让人提不起劲，快进着看完了。。。
&钩又直又长生怕你看不出来似的、、一星给黒島結菜的侧颜、、
我从来没有感觉如此窒息过。
和自己和解，和生活和解。男神 Leonardo Sbaraglia依舊非常迷人。
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