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)
有西岛俊秀每天唠叨着你的开支，每天变着花样为你做不同的菜，时不时的深夜deep talk，这不就是所有gay子梦想的生活吗（(o^^o)）
结局我不理解，打算在在椰和华的祝福下携手走进新世界？？斜教真是害人不浅，看着像骗人入会又拍屁股走人的渣。以及结婚育儿催人老，呵。
终于把电影版看了 虽然没有电视剧版本的好看 剧情更平淡无奇 但是为什么贤二那么好笑
本人的年度最佳！！！不仅是故事很吸引人，两位女演员之间的火花简直烧到了我的心里😭宗教信仰、婚姻孩子都不足以成为阻碍，只需要一句想念我们就能一起奔赴新世界😭看到最后泪流不止，一想到本单身狗顿时更想哭了，我的Marike你在哪里？(╥﹏╥)
（ps:吉米完全是我的理想型啊，好想和她谈恋爱）
小朋友们求he，有了一些经历的朋友们觉得还是不要he（？）了吧。
这个系列之所以是我私心里的白月光，正是因为它的视角聚焦在了普通中产阶层cp中的生活真实。从清心寡欲的日常中发酵爱情的甜蜜，其实比游走在名利场中发酵出来的糖精要更打动人。日本对于各种身份认同和家庭社会问题的包容，表面上看似压抑，实则让人际关系的处理和国内相比简单了不少。两个男人，几道料理，在三两好友的祝福和父母的肯定下共度余生，怎么就成为了所谓文明社会的奢侈了呢？
女主和傲骨之战里面那个有个破产老爹的红发女长得好像，看有好多人在批评这个BE结局有点难接受，是不是也从侧面反映了大环境越来越不好的情况下，电影甚至成为了一部分人赖以期望新生活的吗啡，我们不是看不得BE，我们只是看不得那些与我们的日常生活相似得可怕的悲哀。
谢谢你们，赶紧多拍点吧。
受洗那里她问，你承不承认你的罪恶？你愿不愿意相信真理？问的分明是你承不承认你爱我、你愿不愿意相信我。I'll tell you my sins and you can sharpen your knife; offer me my deathless death. oh god, let me give you my life. 最后好似幻觉，小屏狂梦极天涯。
「爱是永不止息。」一封献给所有为爱坚持或动摇的姬佬的情书，一个关于当你选择相信后的承诺。你能从看似平淡实则无比细腻的推拉、夜幕下紧握的手与轻盈的吻、颈后湿热的吐息和含泪的深情注视中，感受到酝酿足有八年的郑重，以及说好「我们的故事」的严肃。没想到连续两年为 Tribeca 首映、向席安玛致敬（烧女图的影迷不可错过）的姬导拍姬片深深打动——毫不意外的是，本片的摄影师也是姬。我们必然无法永生，但爱、这样的故事会永存。四星半。
喜欢女主。简单干净，带起很美好的青春回忆啊
女主颜我真的舔舔…后面看得我心梗，宗教信仰这玩意儿就是容不得txl，我说上帝你为什么这么恨！最后又眼泪纵横，“about a million times….you should have been there.”😭……还能怎么发展啊……看到孩子我真的两眼一抹黑
结尾真恐怖，结了婚的那位面容憔悴，没结婚的那位神采奕奕，这大概是个反婚反育片吧，宗教信仰不是两人被迫分开的理由，而是在于自始至终根本就没有想明白要怎么过好属于自己的人生。
很温馨并且整部电影看下来都是甜甜的恋爱，但为什么总感觉贤二和史朗的关系很脆弱呢，看电影的时候脆弱这两个字一直都在我脑海挥之不去，并且我还很害怕室友发现我在看同性恋电影，这让我脑海里的脆弱又加深了（突然感觉我和室友的关系也有点脆脆弱了
真的无法理解，爱但是不能在一起，要等待、等待、等待，甚至是等待一个永远不会到达的未来。爱在当下。
有人说是违命前传，还真是。只能看中间一段。
特么的两个大叔的纯情爱恋还挺好看，比他们好看和好吃的是片中的美食，即便是简单的食材，也能做的精致可观，片尾在樱花树下喝酒野餐，好好浪漫啊 ~
最后十分钟也太狠了吧，看得我泪流成河，刚开始看就想到了违命，都是宗教背景下的禁忌之恋，困在原地的人满脸憔悴，逃离那里的人步履不停。
0的撒娇让我不自然皱起眉。这大概就是同性相斥吧。
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