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)
节奏不算好，但在印度这个题材真的勇敢，继上次的维权律师之后，印度又赢了一把。人家开始拍彩虹平权，我们在不让说就不存在。
所以现在还剩哪些地域不能正大光明的拍这样的片子？
男主的自私小气，大男子主义不正是父权制下最活生生的例子。
结尾的和解过于迅猛且没有说服力扣一分，从演技到剧情都非常的真实。编剧果然是有生活阅历的人
好圆的月亮，好羡慕，心情好复杂，复杂到抽了一支烟。
拖沓，真的很拖沓。明明是商业片，却像文艺片一样让人昏昏欲睡，而且又没有文艺片的内涵。男主的新男朋友实在太丑了，印度就没帅哥了吗？说是喜剧片，但没几个能让我笑得出来的场景，男主的懦弱和大男子主义的性格、爱管闲事的亲戚看着我很恼火。实在不明白为什么有些人就是这么想要传宗接代，真以为自己是天选之子吗？就算这是印度LGBT电影的里程碑，也应该结合电影的内容去评价这部电影。难看。
电影本身有趣、温馨。电影的意义是：那里有希望。
男同和女同组成的形婚，我愿叫它天作之合。感情是发自本心的
我觉得你们这群人很奇怪，这么怕晦气吗？来生都不信的一群人怕晦气。。
印度电影总能给人惊喜，拍出令人深思的题材和主题
好奇同性之间的雷达真的这么强吗
蛮有信心在三十岁之前out
片名直译是祝贺, 刚好我最喜欢最喜欢的是他们婚礼的那一场, 歌舞好有感染力, 大家都在尽情地享受这个好像只有快乐的时刻. 喜剧部分做的优劣各半吧, 比如那些一见钟情的慢镜头就挺好玩的, 但是后半段拿偷传对方无法生育来当搞笑点就真的觉得反胃. 本来想叹一句南亚同性恋也难啊! 看到最后: 那当然是没有南亚女人难!
大家对印度电影这么宽容吗？这片子拿掉“形婚”主题来看，整个影片结构跟国产轻喜剧没什么区别啊，国产轻喜剧还能少拍一个小时。
其实是一部接近完美的印度电影，因为印度电影一直有自己的小宇宙，这部的场景、节奏、调度、歌舞，还有时不时出现的慢镜头和MV都很印度。。最大的加分项肯定是题材，其次要赞扬这部电影的所有演员们，因为印度式表演经常吹胡子瞪眼，脸谱化，极其夸张和抓马！但这部里的男女主和所有配角的表演都很自然流畅！真的很棒！
我知道《祝贺》这个标题是为了天台打电话那一幕诞生的
电影真的很一般，但是我嫉妒啊，嫉妒到发狂嫉妒到眼红。(彩虹游行那段真的很好🌈，自然的美是因为自然是彩色的)
日常酸国外电影题材广泛。印度风格的商业片，观感还不错，当作一般喜剧去看就好。但比起摔爹等还是差不少。深度不够，有点隔靴搔痒，用喜剧去消解严肃话题就很容易这样吧。
印象中好像从来没看过形婚的电影 一个谎言需要无数个谎言去掩盖 从形婚开始的每一幕都尬得难受 这男主如同女主形容的一样mcp 好在最后总算勇敢迈出了最重要的一步 出柜后世界依旧没有不同 但每一口呼吸都是真实的
他们的幸运在于家人都友爱，有强大的心理支撑，揭开真相后又包容。感觉是同性宣传片
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