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)
好老套的青春疼痛文学，自己给自己扎耳洞那一段也太暴力了吧，太吓人了。两个人的感情好幼稚，好初中生，剧本不太行。在操场接吻那一段没想到让我时隔十多年又在荧幕上看到依萍式接吻，救大命，还有这个贯穿始终的滤镜也打咩打咩
虽然本来期待不高，但这个阵容和这么好的故事全给浪费了，还是惊到我了
1.5⁵
「我不要将来。我觉得现在就很好了。」「我也觉得是。」香港女校的爱情故事，短发班长李詠藍实在太像《蝴蝶》里的蒋祖曼了，几度让我出戏。电影应该是根据导演自己的亲身经历改编，所以显得特别真挚细腻。其实和大多数同性题材电影差不多，罗曼史开场于相邻的桌椅、因为误会或者世俗眼光而分开、多年后重遇已经物是人非、虽然给你幸福的人不是我但也希望你幸福。多给一星，是给封面的雨中之吻，也是她们在学校操场上上演的那场肆无忌惮热吻，这是她们的爱情唯一一次曝露在阳光下，哪怕只有那短短的几秒钟、也足以度过往后黯淡的数十年。「其实她到最后都还是深爱着李詠藍，只是她不忍将越来越好的她拉入生活的深渊，于是选择在三十岁之前结婚。为什么找你来当伴娘? 大概是很想和你携手走过这段路吧。朦胧中，就要骗过自己，最终走向的人是你。」
不太明白的有两点，明明相爱，为何还要再等到30岁？明明相爱，为何要标榜对方是朋友？
司机is a eye candy，嘎嘎is not pleasant to watch
整体的摄影和色调都很小清新，最大的败笔是，在女二父亲的葬礼之后，没有逻辑的说现在开始不联系，到了30岁没有结婚再在一起……太强行了……
就像两人在沙发上看着《蓝宇》，却只有一个人看到了最后。
粉丝滤镜也无法忽视的普通工整which means 无趣又平淡，古驰起伏和背后古驰家族人的爱恨争斗，一切都讲得太潦草了，爱得快恨得快，垮得快兴得快。莱托少爷的表演好惊喜一开始都没认出来。
最戳我的场景是她俩一起看蓝宇，没有画面，蓝宇说的是“你可能不知道，我是真的喜欢你”
稀碎，这不是能成为密友大概总带着爱，这是谁说旧情人变不到老友😓
Gaga的演出油腻且表面，每次用力怒目圆睁的时候我总担心她的眼球会掉出来。
还是浪费了题材…几次转折好突兀，人物情绪不连贯…感动不起来。
Gaga本色出演；不看演职员表找不到莱托少爷系列；小三万能公式：这不是错误，这是种选择～去你大爷的选择🤷🏿♀️
？？？？？？？？？？？？？？？导演执导自己在拍什么吗？？？？？？？？ 老子长这么大没看过这么莫名其妙的东西？？？天呐小时代都比这个好看！！！！我的天哪小时代太好看了！！
好气，可能是斯科特作品里最差的一部，烂的和好的甚至都看不出丝毫他的痕迹。
A solid entertainment，就是情节架构和人物角度都不太行，全程一直在想这必须得索伦蒂诺来拍吧。以及，Driver依然是sex scene fantasy带货第一人，继沙发之后我现在开始好奇使用进行曲配乐了👀
手法太过于匆忙了吧，这个传记好像想表达的有点多，但实际故事看下来感觉又特别少，感觉不至于这么匆忙，在这种矛盾的感觉下，这个故事显得没有那么惊心动魄跌宕起伏
学生时代，总有一些人、一些事，让我们不顾一切；长大之后，才明白我们无能为力，终将妥协。
剧作上的问题比较大，没有挖掘出“众所周知”之外的其他有价值的任何信息，像把维基百科照本宣科的一般。另外，缺少对剧中人的共情，缺少真情实感，即便演员演的再卖力，也还是徒劳。
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