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)
男主太老相了。
故事太简单了，没有扩展的余地，徒有镜头和情感的填充依然很苍白
把一件艰难的事拍的这么“顺利”，是想告诉大家只要敢想敢干坚持不懈，奇迹就会像吃零食长胖一样水到渠成吗？感情戏挺多余的。
父亲的无声或说严厉的爱
没想到还是有被感动到
韩国搞煽情真的有一套，居然还把我看哭了，所以爱要发自内心，爱也要说出口，藏在心底的爱终究是无法让对方理解，甚至误解的；允儿好有少女感，可是还是要吐槽下滤镜，有些镜头眼睛都发紫了。
看完才知道这部影片出自《现在去见你》导演之手，所以带了点玄幻的色彩还能理解。
依托真实新闻素材而改编，本身很好看，但后半段太依赖于闪回交代前史，叙事也不太连贯，姐姐的戏份呈现的方式有点问题。
本来觉得这样题材的外语片看起来会是积极平淡缺少共鸣的 但其实比想象中动人
常年看悬疑犯罪的人突然来这么一部洗涤心灵 允儿则用来净化眼球
朴政民这两年的戏拍的不错呢…韩国人很会玩这种小东西，重笔涂亲情，浅笔再捎带一点甜甜的爱情，落俗套但是抓人心啊，挺不错的，观感温暖，不免动情
多一星给温情的故事，男主，女主，年纪太大了，怎么演高中生啊，话说又有电话，又有邮递员怎么没有公路？
前半截看着还可以，创意也不错。
姐姐其实真实已经不存在了啊
尽管主线有点乱，情感有点散，但仍有值得一看的温暖。
小而美的故事，就是半路出家的爱情线会让人有点点出戏。
为什么林允儿永远高中生的模样 这是一句真实的赞叹！天才少年的初恋 就是她的模样啊
亲情线: 父子多年来都背着巨大的包袱，都觉得因为自己而间接导致妻子/母亲和女儿/姐姐死去，都在自责，缺乏沟通交流的两人都没有勇气、颜面和自信面对彼此，关系一直拧巴着尴尬着。直到父亲意识到: 原来不但是自己背着包袱，儿子也在扛着，这才敞亮地聊开。 父亲向儿子坦白需要多大的勇气啊，父亲得知儿子知道自己曾有自杀的想法也是挺揪心的。。。总之活着的人还是要活下去的，卸下包袱才能更好地前行。
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。
非常感人，但允儿饰演的角色和主角一村人不在同一个时空
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