02-02-2021, 10:40 AM
With a title that sounds like a comedy, Death Takes a Holiday surprisingly turns out to be a riveting romance that earns its place next to such films as Wuthering Heights and The Ghost and Mrs. Muir.
The anthropomorphic personification of Death in cinema is almost as old as the art form itself, whether Death is playing chess with Max Von Sydow in The Seventh Seal or crashing Vincent Prices party in The Masque of the Red Death, it has always been a fascinating archetype that writers and filmmakers have loved to dabble with, but one of my favourites is Death Takes a Holiday that was directed by Mitchell Leisen and starring the great Fredric March.
This is truly a beautiful film and March’s portrayal of Death is simply wonderful as is Evelyn Venable’s performance here as the lovely Grazia, and though this movie has been remade a couple of times, rather terribly in the case of Meet Joe Black, it’s this original telling that will warm your heart and bring a tear to your eye.
The anthropomorphic personification of Death in cinema is almost as old as the art form itself, whether Death is playing chess with Max Von Sydow in The Seventh Seal or crashing Vincent Prices party in The Masque of the Red Death, it has always been a fascinating archetype that writers and filmmakers have loved to dabble with, but one of my favourites is Death Takes a Holiday that was directed by Mitchell Leisen and starring the great Fredric March.
This is truly a beautiful film and March’s portrayal of Death is simply wonderful as is Evelyn Venable’s performance here as the lovely Grazia, and though this movie has been remade a couple of times, rather terribly in the case of Meet Joe Black, it’s this original telling that will warm your heart and bring a tear to your eye.
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