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)
属于是sm群体也没讨好 爱情故事也讲的一般
很清水，太纯良了（失望），不过还挺可爱，至少比五十度灰有诚意多了
真是纯洁的SM关系，男主太拼了吧，被打被踩被咬被滴蜡
本以为会很香艳很刺激，但是除了少数几个镜头还有点意思之外，大多时候也太无聊太干巴巴了，看得人昏昏欲睡……
三分纯给男主的颜和身材。狗本狗啊，哪里去找
哪里都觉得很怪，但比起‘黑帮大佬和我的365日’之流又正常不少
哪里都觉得很怪，但比起‘黑帮大佬和我的365日’之流又正常不少
带BDSM元素的爱情轻喜剧，尺度不大，两位演员选的蛮好的，男主角这个狗狗型看得我S心都出来了(x
有点逗。剧情本身并无特别吸引人的地方，人设也一般，亮点大概是男女主？
一向恣意出格的韓片居然把禁忌游戲拍的那麽收斂和小清新。
就是演技真的太太太差了。
狠狠代了女A男O，职场爱情玩很大，真的太会拍了，但是办公场合其实我觉得有点过火了。科普了一下知识，但是关系理想化，还有社会环境理想化，选角不错！
小清新的小众爱情电影，看起来轻松愉快。女性向，爹味男人别看。
网飞的亚洲制作策略很明显，日剧浮気韩影科普BDSM，但终极都是以纯爱为内核，探讨爱情关系，渗入社会视角，紧抓亚洲情感特点。男主选角太成功了。かわいい犬らしい。
少时老小也蜕变成了超有气质的成熟女性啊徐贤好美，角色诠释得也很好，男主又帅有奶有些角度好像庞博。没抱啥期望但是有惊喜到，韩国人真的很会拍这种擦边球电影，不会像五十度灰那样标题党，该有的都有，很到位。还是没心没肺的做个小bm比较好，DS好累，那个分寸感太难拿捏了
男女主太有cp感了！就是人设稍微有点扁平和理想化，但我已经被演员表演和剧情狠狠打动！我一定要说：谢谢网飞！
但是这两个人真的出戏，尤其女主，一点不S。
果然没啥惊喜。你想看的都没有哈哈。。不过还是有一些甜甜的恋爱感觉的。
……点开没看时长 以为是剧 还想进度蛮快啊 结果看到三点半才发现是电影
挺另类的喜剧爱情片，男的小狗，女的酷，虽然看不懂BDSM，但是徐贤好看啊～
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