Take This Waltz (2011)

• Year: 2011
• Released: 06 Jul 2012
• Country: Canada, Spain, Japan
• Adwords: 3 wins & 19 nominations
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1592281/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/take_this_waltz
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/take-this-waltz
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Runtime: 116 min
• Writer: Sarah Polley
• Director: Sarah Polley
• Cast: Michelle Williams, Seth Rogen, Sarah Silverman
• Keywords: woman director, husband wife relationship, adultery, relationship, nudity,

	6.5/10
	68/100
	79% – Critics
	58% – Audience

Take This Waltz Storyline

While on a plane ride back to Toronto from a writing assignment, Margot meets Daniel, a handsome stranger. An immediate attraction is formed and Margot is able to open up and discuss some of her fears and longings. A taxi ride back home causes Daniel and Margot to realize that they are neighbours and Margot admits she’s married. The summer-time heat and her increasing fascination with the handsome artist who lives across the street starts getting to her, and Margot is no longer sure if she’s happy in her marriage or if she’d be happier with her fantasies with Daniel.

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Luke Kirby not enough for Michelle Williams

Margot (Michelle Williams) meets Daniel (Luke Kirby) on a plane ride home. They hit it off and then they realize that they are actually neighbors. She finds him intriguing and rethinks her bland marriage to Lou (Seth Rogen). Sarah Silverman plays Margot’s friend Geraldine.

Writer/director Sarah Polley is trying to dive into the emotions of cheating. And it feels manufactured. There is something artificial about the attraction between Margot and Daniel. There is just not enough chemistry between the two. Seth Rogen puts in a nice piece of work. It helps that he has the most compelling scene in the movie. (water in the shower, I’ll say no more) Michelle Williams has done this character before, and she does it well. She’s the magnificent beauty who doesn’t know herself. I have to put this down as a minor sophomore jinx for Sarah Polley after ‘Away from Her’. Not too bad but I expect bigger and better things to come.

The old grass-is-always-greener marriage predicament…well-realized, if lacking in snap

Bored with her marriage to a cookbook author–whom she is chummy with, but not passionate about–an emotionally-restless young woman finds herself guiltily attracted to the hunky artist who lives across the street. He represents reckless, sexual abandon to her, but will she trade a good thing in for something better? Writer-director Sarah Polley has managed to gain the trust of her leading actors (Michelle Williams, Seth Rogen and Luke Kirby) with a mere sketch of a script, one in which the characters are never fully formed or convincing to us. That said, there are intriguing passages here, and a frank, matter-of-fact view of intimacy that is disarming. Polley’s laying of the groundwork for this story is admirably careful and neat, but her rhythm is a little slow and soft, which may turn viewers off before the movie takes shape. Williams, playing a woman-child given to bursts of melancholia, is only really appealing when she shakes off the doldrums, and this takes some time. The film is thoughtfully composed and attractive, but what is the message at the end…that cohabitation is the death knell for modern romance? **1/2 from ****

Polleyanna

I was enjoying this movie anyway when around reel #10 – in a year in which a group of International pseuds saw fit to vote Welles’ masterpiece Citizen Kane into second place behind (of all things) Hitchcock’s vastly overrated and pretentious pap Vertigo – writer- director Sarah Polley paid tribute to ‘Kane’ by offering a spin (pun intended) on the breakfast scene from ‘Kane’, some seventy years after Welles unveiled his innovation. Apart from that this is a fine film any way you look at it and I for one would rather not look at it without Michelle Williams who really gets inside the character that Polley has devised. Of course there are flaws, not least the artist manque who can clearly make enough pulling a rickshaw through the streets of Toronto to fund a flat in a high-rent district, to say nothing of being able to spring for air fares. There are those who have questioned the career of Seth Rogan (Williams’ husband), finding an obvious metaphor in a man who writes cookbooks exclusively about chicken dishes, i.e. chicken is one of the blandest of all dishes, Rogan devotes his life to ways of making it interesting in a recipe yet fails to make himself interesting to his wife. With her previous movie, Away From Her, and now Take This Waltz Ms. Polley has shown herself to be a fine filmmaker, not perhaps as fine as Welles – but then who is – but certainly light years better than Hitchcock.