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)
最终情感的泄洪也仅仅凭借音乐和演技让观众落泪 而中途的那些拼凑起来的线索和故事仿佛脱离电影之外 建议中韩立刻成立中韩电影交流协会 现在国产电影和韩国电影的路数基本傻傻分不清
1.但凡是有亲情戏的桥段直接就能给整哭，我也算是服了自己了 2.真实故事改编的故事回头去追下 3.姐姐的印象更深而不是林允儿
平缓的叙述了一件很普通的事情。题材唯一特殊的一点就是展示了没有公路的村落人们特殊的出行方式。影片里有韩式独有的幽默，关于情感的描述也是独特的韩式风味。但就在这些细腻的生活中真的能感受到很真切的情感，普通人的情感，这是一部成功的青春片，青春里就是有离别也有相遇，这些都在引导我们走向更好的未来。
林允儿真美，搞笑的初恋，但为什么会一起看A片？🤔
人鬼难舍，拾人牙慧《铁道员》，
首先夸所有演员，完成度很好👍但是感觉片子剪辑有很大问题。笑点泪点都有但是没法很好的融合，有点割裂感，以致于主角父子的煽情戏让我觉得带入感不强，反而姐姐的戏份是我最大的泪点。允儿演起喜剧驾轻就熟，轻松的部分负责的很好👍
虽然一早就被剧透了最大反"反转"，但还是看得痛哭流涕。满分院线小品有笑有泪有深度。姐弟线动人，爱情线可人，父子线也并不突兀，亲人死亡大家都觉得自己有责任太正常不过。李星旻朴正民林允儿李秀卿全都喜欢! 允儿我觉得没有姐姐多，不知道为啥一个提女主一个女配。
煽情过于刻意 故事节奏细碎 缺乏起伏 男主太过杰克苏 剧情太理想化 前面还好 后面就很拖沓了 导致观影情绪很难保持持续饱满状态 这种电影最好控制在90分钟内
林允儿不是女主，前半欢乐校园喜剧片后半家庭催泪片转折太突兀，朴正民没啥发挥余地，姐姐倒是非常可爱的角色。如果后半一直讲姐弟情还可以，又硬凹到父子和解，就太乱了。以及林允儿倒追朴正民还是胖了的朴正民这事儿就挺离谱的。
人鬼情未了姐弟篇，片子挺感人的，弟弟的演技不太行啊，一家人有话都藏着掖着不说，绕一个大圈子真是何必。
一个天赋异禀的男孩有了人物欲望：建造简易车站，姐姐作为韩国典型女性形象代表选择照料家庭。姐姐陪伴着走完了一段路，这样的男孩前途也会一片光明吧。
平淡又温馨吧，和父亲谈心感动到了。可是跟热评想法差不多当在火车上握着姐姐的手时那一刻不像姐弟了。林允儿真的三十多了吗，漂亮的脸和以前一点变化都没有
7.3分#平淡中还是带了些韩影特有的细腻温情，可惜故事讲述得并不是很吸引人，不过姐姐的设计还是俗却泪目～p.s.允儿好美～
平平淡淡地讲一个火车车站的故事
爱情与梦想题材电影里 试图在其中加入父子关系和解 温馨姐弟情凸显 励志乡村少年逆袭路 想象一下一群不懂设计的甲方让你把修改意见全部表现在一张图上的感觉 嗯就是这样 挺难的
就立意很高，故事讲的不够好，节奏也不够紧凑。有点浪费这个题材。
我还以为只有国产片才会让三十多岁的人演高中生……
时光太短暂了
这样的女朋友也不会有人愿意放弃吧
「建立了通往村莊的路之後 更自由的和世界溝通了」一個由村民自己搭建的小小停靠車站 這本身就是個奇蹟 而離開卻又似乎不曾離開的姐姐或許也是 帶給弟弟治癒和勇敢 以及和父親和自己的和解 坦然面對自己擁有的幸福
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