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Indie romantic-drama about 28-year-old Margot (Michelle Williams), who is happily married to Lou (Seth Rogen) a cookbook author. But when she meets Daniel (Luke Kirby) - a dashing artist who has moved in next door - their mutual attraction strains Margot's belief in her marriage. More
From actress, writer and director Sarah Polley (Away From Her). Hide
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Michelle Williams is the go-to screen darling for wistful and heartbroken. It’d be a frigid viewer indeed who didn’t sigh for her in Brokeback Mountain or Blue Valentine, and her Oscar-nominated turn as Marilyn Monroe had that vulnerable, poor-me quality nailed. More
Williams anchors Take This Waltz with another strong performance, although her Margot is a trickier character to sympathise with. Whether you’re rooting for her to hook up with the brooding neighbour Daniel (Luke Kirby) or stay with loveable hubby Lou (Seth Rogen doing drama) will probably depend on the emotional baggage you’ve brought to the cinema – preferably not in the seat next to you.
Sarah Polley, the young Canadian actor-turned-director who has already shown remarkable maturity with her debut feature Away from Her, picks at the scabs of these 20-somethings’ relationships. Margot mopes about in a Hipstamatic-toned world, with her blue toenails and cutesy wardrobe, gazing and wondering whether to buy that ticket to Cheatsville and leave her comfortable life in rubble.
This isn’t your average romantic film where the audience sits like God, waiting for the lovestruck couple to overcome obstacles and embrace. Polley’s characters live in the murky real world. They’re awkward, lusty, funny and raw.
There’s a fantastic communal shower scene that I’ll go out on a limb and say could only be directed by a female filmmaker. Margot, her sister-in-law (an unexpectedly great Sarah Silverman) and an aquarobics class of aging ladies are shown full frontal nude but not at all sexualised. The years are written on the older women’s lumpy bodies as if to say right or wrong, the decisions you make are what shapes your life and you wear them, always. Hide
4 ratings and 4 reviews
Michelle Williams plays the damaged/down trodden people well. She cuts another emotional level in American cinema which is on a high for me
A very authentic and thought provoking drama highlighting the fragility and complexity of relationships when put to the test.Michelle Williams once again excels in her performance as a quirky,playful and young at heart woman who is has an idealistic attitude to love and yearns for the unattainable.Her love interest,Luke Kirby is a nice bit of eye candy too :)
I loved this movie so much I would stick it in the oven at 150 for three hours and then eat it. I'm not good at this game.
Right, so (Spoiler-ish alert) I was confused as to where the storyline was heading until the shower scene (as mentioned in the main review) where the women are all showering and talking about relationships, one of the older ladies says "What's new gets old".. Or something along those lines. She was obviously referring to their bodies, but I think that pretty much sums up the entire plot.
What's new, good or bad, gets old, and you either deal with it or you find something new.
It just so happens in this film the new is a strangely intriguing (might I add patient) artist who has a lot of spare time on his hands to pursue Margot, in-between being a rickshaw dude.
Though the ending was a little strange...I wasn't expecting the time lapse sex-fest (I guess that was just to prove even the new new gets old.) Though it was a less obvious choice than one casual intimate scene, fade to black END.
I would watch this again purely for the "What would you do to me" scene. Just quietly.
Yet another great performance from Michelle Williams. She plays a happily married woman who falls for a man that lives across the street. The marriage seems to be fine and happy, yet there is still an empty feeling she seems to have. That gets fufilled by the young man next door. This is a great indie film with a great performance from Williams and good work from Sarah Silverman and Seth Rogen.
There is a lot of truth in this portrait of a marriage running out of the will to survive. Full review.
Sarah Polley’s second film is a masterfully painted portrait of an ordinary marriage under threat, dominated by a central performance of exquisite subtlety and observation. Full review.
Sarah Polley's study of an all-consuming infatuation confirms the Canadian director's status as an intelligent talent. Full review.
This sophomore feature is a stumble backwards in terms of maturity. Full review.
Somehow it is the waiting - for the fall that you expect is coming, for the marriage you figure will fall apart - that makes "Take This Waltz" one to make room for on your dance card. Full review.
Sarah Polley's honest, sure-footed, emotionally generous second feature. Ms. Williams, one of the bravest and smartest actresses working in movies today, portrays a young woman who is indecisive and confused, but never passive. Full review.
Think 'Blue Valentine' with better sex. Full review.
Despite a few tonal and structural missteps, this intelligent, perceptive drama proves as intimately and gratifyingly femme-focused as Polley's 2006 debut, 'Away From Her.' Full review.
Well this just looks ruddy marvelous.
It looks depressing!
Watched this trailer - but still don't know what the hell this movie is about!!
Michelle williams can do no wrong
This looks great. I agree with leelee
I agree with Ben