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)
我总是在电影院睡得很安稳。不管如何，大局观没啥太大问题。不如以往系列的话就不如吧，还是比同期的其他国产电影要好。希望我们长长久久地看到自由、对美好的向往。
老IP就应该做好是圈钱的准备。全程出去两次，最后还是没熬完提前退场了……连我隔壁5岁小儿都觉得不好看。两星算仁慈
差点没认出来。为什么国外这个年龄的女演员戏路如此宽广。
这是本月可以看的吗？ (多啦A梦吃惊.jpg
痴人之爱，只是她太真实了，而且非常美国，好难得她是一直追寻少数族群被神爱着，平等地爱着。劳模姐的演出值得奥斯卡最佳女主角。
一个女明星，本不长这样，却动手抢其他外形稍逊的胖女人的角色，把自己脸型贴成这样，极尽用力过猛之能事，拍这种showy但又臭又长完全不知所云的好粉丝类glamorous传记电影，就是为了骗那尊小像。之前有某位影后也有这种化妆抢胖子角色的新闻好在后来角色又交回胖姐儿手里人家获得了认可。没想到这种事会发生在自己喜欢的演员身上，制片的还是她自己鼓吹“为更多各色少数群体/女性提供平台”的公司。我只感觉虚伪与羞耻。【qrbt之王龟头小二真的不能看了，已产生生理不适，口区
如果说旧版的宇宙小战争是一袋包装朴素的糖丸疫苗，那么新版的宇宙小战争就是一瓶包装精美的维生素软糖。虽然两者尝起来都很甜，但终究还是不一样的。前者是药物，后者充其量也不过是营养补剂
信教的和不信的、了解背景的和不了解的看这部片感受应该不同，单纯作为一部影片一个故事来看，情节合适、不沉闷不沉重不太严肃深刻，提供的信息足够了解Tammy的一生，看起来她热爱神喜爱人、有才华有野心又坚强，她老公是需要她助力、驱动却又不甘于此的双？女主表演很到位，唱的很好，妆造的功劳也很大，相比之下男主看起来一直一样，“反派”看脸没认出来，但听他讲话瞬间回到“金并”。//关于婚姻的那段对话太现实，女人在婚姻中想做妻子而不是母亲，需要男人做丈夫而不是儿子，但是男人常常是个男孩，会对需要成长为男人这件事感到压力和委屈，最终双方皆疲惫。
真实事件改编，曾号称美国四大电视网之一的基督教电视传教网兴起与衰落的故事。本来应该是个有趣的题材，导演的政治立场太凸显，爱憎过于分明，未用心去经营剧情，只是用漫画化的手法去表现，让影片成了政治片。不过劳模姐在影片中的表现可圈可点，给影片挽回一些颜面。
可以配搭《Benedetta》或《Mainstream》一起看。開首小Tammy在教堂感受痙攣般神召卻被教徒認為顯靈，一件改變她命運的貂皮草，她是愛神還是愛人或者只想當個被敬愛的人都不重要，因為電影實太在平淡，剩下的就只有Jessica Chastain的易容式表演。
陪1.3米以下的儿子打卡，从剧情来看，前期压制后期爆发，这就是儿童爽剧吧～
平铺直叙的神棍传记片。奥斯卡眼力还是有的，看完就只记得女主和化妆。精力旺盛的劳模姐太适合演欢快症人格了，脑壳有被吵到。可惜电影没有拍到塔米·菲和变装皇后鲁保罗的奇特友谊。宗教说到底就是一门自洽课程，塔米·菲能够把信仰上帝和对少数群体的爱统一收纳，who am I to judge？
这部情节俗套，主人公刻意的表现【静香的牛奶浴……什么鬼】和不注重细节【静香拿的那双鞋两个镜头之间一次像布鞋，一次像球鞋……】都让人蛮失望的。
有些好奇基督徒看完这部片子会作何感想。浅显来说这部作品的造型和故事噱头形式大于剧本内容本身的作品，上帝可能可以救赎众人，然欺骗毕竟难以赢得共情。但劳模姐真的神了，最后舞台上高歌的那一段让人回想起朱迪，我相信她来演朱迪一样是可以演得极好的，Jessica Brova！
感觉好碎啊 什么都想讲但什么都没仔细讲 看得我想睡觉
p.s.劳模姐贡献了一次整容级别的演技，的确是这届奥斯卡最有力的竞争者。
虽然对夫妻由俭入奢的过程挖的不深，但鉴于牵扯许多仍存在的业内利益可以理解。塔迷菲的刻画前后有些脱节，对其忠实信仰且开放态度的立场描写不够顺畅，但这些都是剧本或者剪辑的问题，劳模同学非常好的诠释了剧本中的人物，虔诚的信徒，善良的女人，享受物质，在底线时刻坦诚面对自己和世界，这是属于她的《女魔头》，在今年的女主竞争中最为亮眼。
虽然从来都理解不了宗教人士，但是看完还是很被tammy faye打动的，这大约就是申奥片学院派的力量。一根筋的乐观傻气又可爱。最喜欢年轻的tammy环顾一周，坚持抱着孩子挤进丈夫的餐桌，然后把孩子塞给丈夫。好解气。
ummmm作画精良了观感却没以前看的版本那么好 最后出木衫君的表情笑死www
严重怀疑劳模姐要制片+主演的原因就是她在Tammy Faye身上看到了她自己，某种戏精人格。（有人是用一生在治愈自己的童年。
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