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)
主角的朋友跟他说“欢迎来到现实世界”，一下把我从电影里拉了出来。每个人的家庭都不完美，电影美化了矛盾，用喜剧去包装，屏幕外面的我们乐一乐就好
爱情消失是持续性的，但爱不会消失。
小男主像t子，男主的好基友挺好看的，法国男转校生身材不错👍🏻
在以婚姻关系为纽带的背景下，爱情能存续多久呢？🥲🥲🥲
被喜劇取向的幼稚行徑的爸爸搞得有點煩, 最可愛的一場戲是三小孩大戰媽媽哈哈哈, 還有病房裡的老阿北也很妙, 編導還是有不錯的幽默感, 題材很值得思考, 性取向就只是性取向// 這明明是我想看的電影為何netflix都不跟我說他有還要我自己挖出來笨蛋netflix不要再給我推薦爛東西啦
反正比我的车好，台词太舞台了，虽然文本很美就是了
89/100，是手抖可以打9分的电影。到底是什么在家庭这个概念背后联系了原本互不联系的人生？不是血缘，也不是法律的强制力。说到底，是千丝万缕的爱。笑中带泪，提前入围本人2022十佳。
看的时候总是想到瑞典类似题材的《养子十五岁》。
普通青春片让基友看了想要男人，这部青春片是让基友看了想要儿子。
演员们颜值高到我吐血！视角很独特，朝着正确的方向独特着。
这才是正常的普通家庭价值观吧 与血缘与基因无关 一手一脚领着你接纳自己和拥抱世界这样最基本的父母原则 大部分繁殖人一辈子都没有学会 虽然家庭最终分开了 但也是好的再度启程 拍摄形式有够酷
我猜到了我猜到了我猜到了我猜到了双胞胎哥哥喜欢男主！卫生间那段好像《在街上》几人组相遇那里，男主朋友也好好看，或者说全篇颜值都很高。
哈哈…说实话I didn't get it…不知道为啥，感觉好浮于表面，这个美国大妞太嬉皮了真的有好笑…
确实看着保罗一个人的时候挺难受的，出轨了 还偷腥两年 两年前 儿子也大了吧 别告诉我怕伤害儿子 一边维持婚姻 一边偷腥 这理由我是不能接受的 保罗不合适的理由也没给出来 就说是双方的错 我错nm 二十年 可怕
抓马还是得看意呆利，两代人的家庭喜剧真是精彩，性取向依旧是要处理的问题，但更重要的是人与人之间的关系，怎么说呢，算是一顿食之无味，弃之可惜的大餐吧。
ohno…爱的千丝万缕是好名字，爱而不是血缘才使我变成如今的模样不是么？ 可是婚姻这么多年，只有孩子是羁绊又让我难过。突然在爱里失望之后，互相伤害不能让状况变好，但也没有解决的办法，它是单向的，这样想着又好绝望，哪天搞不懂对方了真难过。 是可爱好电影，意大利、攀岩、骑车，俏皮和年轻人tla，可爱，喜欢。
也就开头结尾的自拍陈述视角蛮有看头（虽然也是很笼统的镜头言语方式了），已经对异性恋的屁事没多少感冒了，更没有很想关心你们男同啦！男主实惨。
LGBT也一样，逃不过有了娃之后可能会出轨会撒谎，保罗没有做错任何事，只是婚姻与爱不同罢了，即使你倒了我的红酒我剪烂了你的Prada，我们之间依然是真爱过，毫无疑问，里昂很幸运。电影整体演技好自然，中年组很抓马，青年组很可爱。
和所有“普通人”家庭一样，自然无差别的琐碎生活故事。但我不认同出轨是两个人的事，背叛就是背叛，不要找理由
也不是很有新意...或者说主创们为了一个悬念拖时间太长反而让我产生“逆反”心理了，有些线顾此失彼了，明明这个时长还能深挖一些别的东西感觉
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