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)
在最难的一段时间里曾经充当过我的精神支柱，做梦素材，和一点点希望的影子。今天下班以后一路跑到电影院，错过了前十五分钟。剧情很平淡，就是用两个小时交代了每个人物的结局，不过有主题曲就够了。PS司机真是全剧唯一一个令我讨厌的角色
应该是唐顿的大结局了——Stop the noise, I can't hear myself die. 想起第一季的时候我在安村到处安利的时光……刚好最近又看到阿城说起中国文化的断代，更加唏嘘……总之，我同意厨子的说法，盎格鲁萨克逊文明是人类文明的标杆。
520一个人看这部片子是一种仪式感，也很奇妙。1. 在漫长的时间里，所有情爱怨仇都是浮云，“人来人往，克劳利家族永远都在”。2.老夫人的去世总让我担心现实中演员真的会去世，还有女王走了大概也是这样，然后更难受。老夫人这段浪漫经历又证明了，和不爱的人结婚对彼此都是多大的伤害。3.大小姐更像老夫人了，回忆起大表哥的神情意味深长让人神伤，而导演问那一句后她坚定回答“No”，让我肃然起敬。她靠在Carlson肩头恸哭，更让人心疼（Carlson真的慈爱）。4.大表哥的母亲对我而言更像一位楷模，很难形容失独后的她，可能会是未来的我自己吧。5.祝福大家都像Mosley一样事业爱情双丰收！
感谢动画组百忙之中抽空把剧集剪辑出来敷衍我们....就当重温了。
不管，唐家屯就是无脑五星了。年初才把唐家屯从头到尾加上上一部电影版连着复习了一遍，无法不想念老太太一针见血的毒舌，小火车也终于找到了另一半
这久违的亲切感像是时隔三年与因新冠远隔重洋的远房老亲戚们重聚。连巴罗都老了。特别是在今时今日这种什么都不可相信、什么都可崩塌的气氛里，有那么些在时代更替中尚固执不变的保守可靠品质和人事物，格外叫人安心，窝心。
开头镜头扫过两边亲友席的时候眼泪都出来了55，全是曾经熟悉的面孔。看完六季是三年前的事了，唐顿是为数不多能让我又哭又笑的影视剧了。我将永远将你们铭记在心。你们的悲喜离合曾是我青春重要的一部分。
不记得追唐顿庄园的剧集追到哪一集就没有下文了，电影还是值得一看，熟悉的片头音乐一响起，就把人带入英国乡村辽阔的风景中，当然这一集的南法更胜一筹，看的过程中有些角色已经很迷糊的，但是不妨碍这个故事里的每个人都很可爱！
喜欢唐顿的一定要看啊。
看到我的Edith不仅家庭幸福生活美满，还没有被伯爵夫人的title禁锢，重新做起了撰稿人和编辑，写文章，摄影，运营报社……就觉得好开心。整个Downton系列最喜欢的就是二小姐，当把自己困囿于别人给予的关注与爱里，收获的只会是患得患失，只有自己找寻到人生的意义，精神独立地生活，才能不畏旁人目光，活得精彩活得开心。这是她教会我的道理。很高兴有Edith陪我度过漫长岁月，再见啦！
如果Downton Abbey能一直出下去我愿意给五星～多线并行最开始有点乱，但越往后越好看～我一直相信从骨子里就坏的人是很少的，人性的多面性也是如此令人着迷啊……又被提到的大表哥啊(｡•́︿•̀｡)
从一场婚礼开始 到一场葬礼结束🥺我永远都爱的系列❤️
一半跑去南法继承遗产
看的各种泪奔…一个婚礼一个葬礼，老夫人的离去和新生命的到来，也意味着一个旧时代的落幕和一个新时代的来临。短短两个小时讲了很多事儿，南法好美～唯一伐开心的就是古迪子你去哪了？！唐顿ip系列大概就到此结束了，但是真的不想说再见。最最遗憾的是因为封城没能在大荧幕上看到…呜呜…唐顿再见。
寻回身份认同，寻回真正的nice和自我
我一直想 唐顿庄园为什么总能让我感动呢？
3.5 这集真的是合家欢。但是删了txl情节，没有txl情节的唐顿那还是唐顿吗？
看这部电影，不是因为是唐顿的粉丝，而是怀念疫情前的那段岁月，如同金黄色的阳光洒向铺满落叶的道路，静谧而美好
Zenitsu和Inosuke的声优可以选个听起来更有趣的人啊。说起来这两个人后来都结婚了啊，真是神奇啊。这个故事的设定虽多，但后面很少提到啊，没什么意义啊。
我太喜欢女明星那个大结局了，这才是真大团圆，口音并不代表什么，永远别忘了你和谁在一起，and also，穷人家的女儿无所畏惧。
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