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)
现在只要看绝症题材总会想起白百合…坂口健太郎为何现在头也变大了？？
春夏秋冬的nana都是一样的美！但这电影本身真的就很普通了，特别是，每次坂口和nana的对手戏，我真的是一点感觉都没有，甚至想拉进度条，反倒是nana旅游回来后和爸爸妈妈的那一段，以及在医院和黑木华的那一段，情感渲染的好太多了。总结来说，就是不如明日的我与昨日的你约会。
剧情大概都猜的出来，但是配乐一出来加上画面还是很好哭
靠絕症純愛感受霓虹四季美景。就是死人純愛模板能來的都規規矩矩來了一遍，八股文都沒這麼工整。除了讀著小說稿子哭了的坂口，對我來說毫無催淚元素，不過nana靠著媽媽哭那裡演得挺好。主cp就麻麻了，副cp我還沒看兩眼居然就成過去式了⋯⋯yukinao好配啊再共演吧！
看的时候想到了《花束般的恋爱》，怎么会突然想到呢，好像是因为两人一开始的相遇都过于美好，樱花，微风，摄像机，但是不同的点又在于，这部是一个悲剧，彻头彻尾的悲剧——就是说，“有的人能认识就已经十分美好了”。
《小兔的问题》《萤火虫女孩》《小火车》《蒯(kuai)老伯糖水铺》《哼将军和哈将军》《外婆的蓝色铁皮柜轮椅)》《翼娃子的星期天》
略失望吧，本来以为会是茉莉在剩下的十年中怎么一路探寻自己生命的意义，和家人、朋友、恋人去把短短的时间活得更加精彩，当初看了预告片真的很期待来着，用手持录像的形式把对生命里的各种情感和为之付出的努力奋斗都好好的记录下来，这样的感情和升华多好啊🥲结果没想到手持录像这么好的点只在开头和结尾出现了一小会儿，甚至女主最后还把它们都删了😩而且很遗憾整部片竟然前半部分大多都是在讲女主的各种纠结和闹别扭，和朋友相处的美好时光、和人的暧昧几乎都是一闪而过，甚至确定关系后对于生活的描写和探寻也是止步不前，感觉这个题材爱情真的可以只是一个闪亮的点缀🙁而且不知道是女主的人设思维比较拗还是小松的演技问题，整部戏她的戏份仅有一半（甚至可能是靠配乐和角度）是能让我入戏的，更多时候真的觉得她耷拉着眼睛很丧很困的样子。
观影过程中对影片整体的画面风格印象非常深刻，看完电影一查才发现竟然是中国第一部绘本动画，其中几个故事还是直接来自出版社的素材。总之，这是一部挺特别的电影，蛮有实验性的。不过我觉得电影没有小众或者大众的严格之分，能打动人的就有可能是大众的。
樱花太好看了，除此之外…坂口小天使的怎么总是弱弱的样子太让人捉急了
小天使和nana，帅哥美女谈生死恋爱，画面是美的。但是故事叙述平淡也是真的。
期待过高 也没哭 瞎了哥哥姐姐的颜 完全没有磕到
十几年前的我会被一公升的眼泪感动得稀里哗啦 但现在已经不太行了 何况情感浓度远远不能及 时刻举着dv的小松菜奈更衬得这出配乐满到溢出来的戏像一支加长版mv/不过坂口健太郎还是帅的
梦回童年～最喜欢糖水铺呢一段很有生活气息！每一段故事的画风都不一样很喜欢！
当生命进入倒计时。十年不是准确的时间，是女主得的绝症，最长可活十年。倒计时的人生，除了怨天尤人还可以干嘛？女主选择把自己的故事写成小说，那些与友人的开心时光，与亲人的宝贵回忆，以及，幸运的，与爱人的幸福点滴。可惜的是，与爱人的情感比较波折，不然美好的回忆会更多吧。这是小说改编的电影，小说作者就是女主这样的女孩，可惜她在小说发行前离世了。有相似生病经历和痛苦爱情的观众应该会被感动吧，影评里哭得很厉害的观众不少。不过，这样的剧情无法打动我了。
挺喜欢这类题材的，拍多了容易落入俗套，这部就是，感觉浪费时间。樱花飘落的慢镜头印象比较深。
片名建立起了预期，但看到了后半段还是忍不住落泪。爱情最痛苦的模样，就是明明相爱，却不得不放弃……
国产动画里难得一见的爱与温情并极具艺术风格的动画短片饕餮盛宴~
什么玩意儿。。。从余命一个月 到三个月 到一年 现在余命10年也出来了 霓虹的医生还真是牛逼哦 真是没东西拍了？
还是那句话，啥时候能让nana痛痛快快地在电影里恋爱？
有点感人的爱情电影。
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