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)
这不就是我们朝思暮想，梦寐以求的荒诞喜感吗？通常我们是以阅读体验中臆想出来的幻觉来近距离接触它，现在则有这么一部电影，能让你只用眼睛就能实实在在看见它，多么妙不可言。
每个人的刻板印象和作品本身呈现的刻板印象。冲突之后就会和解，怕只是创作者的美好愿景罢了。（顽固不化的人私以为只有走马灯才会将其融化。人类这种生物，赶紧毁灭吧啊。）
【2.0】只能说宁缺毋滥，市面上相近的题材、相似的剧情走向的电影实在太多了，这部并没有为观众带来任何新的思考。另外必须得吐槽一下，这片的人物心理未免都太极端了些，动不动就走到“羞愧自杀”的地步，愧死机制简直直逼《来自新世界》。
20220706——176；去年的新片，对电影产业的讽刺具有极强的娱乐性和现实性。电影表达犀利，三位主演非常出色。
对骂那段
戏精导演遇上戏精演员，戏里戏外狗血值拉满，还是蛮有趣的。其中不乏一些关于当下电影圈非常幽默、有趣的观察。
讽刺浅薄，质疑高高在上，讥笑洞察秋毫。但是感觉还可以做得更有趣些。
輕鬆的小品，故事走向沒有很出乎預料，卻被演員的表演張力牽引。潘尼洛普的表現好亮眼。尤其是最後一場記者會，很有印象她面對記者問題只回了一句「沒有」，徹底完整這個角色如何看待她的作品本身。
上一次让我这么满意的还是《方形》 作为演员也很有共鸣
年度迷惑电影，请离开旬报十佳。在每年流水线量产的、翻来覆去那点破事儿的日式致郁家族电影里，这部都算是残次品。
电影人的自嘲，虽然有些表面化但挺好玩。
表现手法很当代艺术，讽刺是刺到了，但又还是比较肤浅。刺不穿这么厚的脸皮的辣种肤浅。佩内洛普是挺牛的，美，还是美。还是做的很好的是，全方位的连带观众一起讽刺了：本我，朝我，虚无，爹，的揭露讽刺。
全片最精彩的部分是破碎机分解旧物，挺解压的。
《主竞赛》通过对一部电影排练过程的刻画，生动反映了该行业中一些不为人知的秘密，也借几个主要人物之手，展现了导演自己的某些看法。但这些所谓的概括其实都是其次，本片最关键的一点是看着幽默而诙谐，不存在太大的观影压力。这是一部关于电影的电影，大部分时间都用来讲如何筹备如何排练一部新片子，笑点基本都发生在这期间。一位名留史册的富豪，请来获奖女导演来拍一部诺贝尔奖巨作，从而将两位性格迥异且表演方法不同的演员凑到一起演对手戏。有趣的是，电影中的演员和戏中戏的角色从某种程度上都很相似，两条线的发展也如出一辙。
人在重要的人死去之后便开始有了时间，有时间去超市门口蹲着、有时间去了解女儿看什么漫画、去了解他画的画，人们有时间为重要的人“复仇”却不肯为重要的人少出海捕一趟鱼，而这些时间完全可以陪家人买指甲油，也完全有时间听听发生了什么事，大家都是这样 ，挚友离世了才想起曾经对你的帮助、恋人离开了才开始追忆过往，但我有时间进行“复仇”却没有在他们还在的时候 给他们多夹一道菜，多说说话 。
让人看出了阿莫多瓦在西班牙电影界的影响力有多大。
第一个想夸的竟然是这个取景地的空间感，完全不像是试读剧本和排练的地方，但是又和这个非常artificial vibe的故事很搭
一个带讽刺意味的故事，但展示的内容和尺度显得小儿科，讽刺的力度亦不大，全靠出色的演员撑着场子。两星。
富有西语系特色的黑色幽默加反转和戏中戏的剧情，讽刺平庸 虚荣和浮夸，也讽刺附庸风雅故弄玄虚和故作低调，讽刺富豪也演员和导演，讽刺乌合之众和主竞赛本身，讽刺所有人，外加一些前后呼应的小细节，哈哈不错。
挺有趣的 专门讽刺电影从业者的喜剧 威尼斯戛纳圣塞等知名国际电影节的奖杯被扔进机器粉碎掉 是电影节影迷的high点了 荒诞喜剧的核心是 一个人越想做什么事 最后反而做不到 且另一个人不费吹灰之力就做到了
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