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)
此前迟迟没太有观影冲动，想着后面要是提名获得奥斯卡奖最佳女主角再来观看，结果还真提名了，现在总算是完成“任务”了。个人观感与《第一夫人》差不多，比前两部看的《古驰家族》《塔米·菲的眼睛》好一些。
以为是惊悚悬疑，ending却颇有喜剧感。
相当好了 就凭他们弄这么多出租车就很不容易 记得当初他们还发微博像观众借车 现在真是大制作了
天啊，我要不看简介，以为斯图尔特在演一个矫揉造作的外围，她对优雅的理解是从Pornhub上学的吗？
像新浪潮，让人想到《随心所欲》和安娜·卡里娜，情绪化的身姿，孩子气一般随遇而安，空无一人的布景，结合上跳接和大头像特写，很是抽象和形而上。不同于典型的年代剧，而是借题发挥，琢磨现代人不得不作为“工具”的困境。电影没有刻意渲染物质文明的腐臭，反之自然也并不总意味着包容和治愈，人到头来只能活在不断地自我调适中，在看似幼稚天真的外壳下，导演有意无意间抒发的情感深沉而复杂。
十多年老粉，《麻辣隔壁》过来的。故事还算完整！
呀耶，氛围还行，但剧情还不如Jackie，有点白瞎了绿林的配乐。KS没拿沃尔皮杯也正常，用力真有点过猛。据说这是个三部曲？好奇第三部会拍谁。
you are your own weapon
《王冠》大火下，再拍这个题材其实不讨巧。感觉K演得特别费劲，徘徊在出戏与入戏间，看得难受死了。她和王冠里的戴安娜都只是部分神似，但体态都很糟糕，太别扭，其实戴安娜不驼背啊。
很重复，111分钟里人物塑造、人物关系和人物内心都没有任何推进。皇室和黛安娜之间关系，也只是展现了很刻板、很简单的对立。中间有一段似乎要往心理惊悚的方向发展，又戛然而止。安妮·博林的鬼魂如同阁楼上的疯女人，又没有好好利用这个设定。整部电影除了华衣美服，就是单调又泛滥的情绪，和无处不在的BGM，美丽而空洞。真的，还不如《王冠》对黛安娜的描写来得好。K很美就是了。
第一个戴妃的镜头，愣了一下，这拍的是…谁？第二个镜头，omg！这个做作油腻演得像个花痴的美国演员到底在演谁！作为人物传记电影，这位美国女演员的表演让我有作呕的生理反应，忍都忍不住。ps：看到一条很好笑的点评，K S是北美郑爽
然而，她却只懂泫然欲泣地微抬下巴秀下颌线 展示美丽。
感觉女主全程都是一种喝醉了的状态，疯疯癫癫的有点像《情深深雨蒙蒙》里的可云，还是期待一下《王冠》第5季里的戴安娜吧
小K确实很努力了，拿出了她比较好的水平。不过，或许是对她的表情太熟悉了，时常让人觉得跳戏，察觉这是K在演戴安娜而不是真的戴安娜。
罗马Olimpia。女主演技台词做作拉垮，像一个嗑药过度的王妃，我睡到一半醒来看到她演技还是这么差，睡都睡不好。
三星半，观众的思维和感知局限在电影的结构框架内，延伸不到“故事”以外的幽微和深远之境，只能通过视听传递内涵的、即时的情绪，运镜和音乐相互摩擦带来的焦虑感几乎是生理性的，聪明的地方是在小时间跨度内仍然紧紧聚焦局部，服饰和饮食被提炼为表达的情节枝干，在视觉和文本上围绕其极尽发挥，高效到像一部精致的类型片。
戴安娜这三个字俨然已成了一个痴心错付的悲剧象征 一个想挣脱王室桎梏的文化符号 一个绽放短短半生就凋零的红颜薄命寓言 每年都被世人不厌其烦地解读消费 神话意淫 欣赏完两小时Pablo Larraín用大量面部表情特写助推好莱坞大明星拿小金人(Round 2) 记住的是随手一截就可做桌面的构图 是Kristen Stewart建模般的侧颜和尽全力展现的压抑崩溃脆弱感 是揪着人情绪走的配乐 是用上千小时缝制的香奈儿华服 甚至是宛如同人小说的安妮博林跨时空联动 & 能脑补下秒就吻在一起的同性告白场面 但对这个二十多年前还在世上鲜活存在的女人 不敢说多懂了分毫
#94奥提女主 色调、摄影、色彩、叙事、表演都很舒服
然而，她却只懂泫然欲泣地微抬下巴秀下颌线 展示美丽。
毛骗的团队 几条线的矛盾纠葛交织 有疯狂的石头+疯狂的赛车的意思 但剧情设计没有惊喜 只有一句包哥牛逼
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