Take This Waltz (R)

Quicklook Rating★★★½
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synopsis

When Margot, 28, meets Daniel, their chemistry is intense and immediate. But Margot suppresses her sudden attraction; she is happily married to Lou (Seth Rogen), a cookbook writer. When she learns that Daniel lives across the street from them, the certainty about her domestic life shatters. She and Daniel steal moments throughout the steaming Toronto summer, their eroticism heightened by their restraint. Swelteringly hot, bright and colorful like a bowl of fruit, "Take This Waltz" leads us, laughing, through the familiar, but uncharted question of what long-term relationships do to love, sex, and our images of ourselves.

details

Drama, Romance
1 hr. 46 min.
Opened June 29th, 2012

director

Sarah Polley

writer

Sarah Polley

MovieGoer Review

Take This Waltz is beautiful, maddening, and sexy, just like its protagonist Margot (Michelle Williams). Margot speaks like a toddler to her husband Lou (Seth Rogen). She's moody but playful, and she has cutesy and symbolic neuroses like in... MORE

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synopsis

When Margot, 28, meets Daniel, their chemistry is intense and immediate. But Margot suppresses her sudden attraction; she is happily married to Lou (Seth Rogen), a cookbook writer. When she learns that Daniel lives across the street from them, the certainty about her domestic life shatters. She and Daniel steal moments throughout the steaming Toronto summer, their eroticism heightened by their restraint. Swelteringly hot, bright and colorful like a bowl of fruit, "Take This Waltz" leads us, laughing, through the familiar, but uncharted question of what long-term relationships do to love, sex, and our images of ourselves.

details

Drama, Romance
1 hr. 46 min.
Opened June 29th, 2012

director

Sarah Polley

writer

Sarah Polley

MovieGoer Review

Take This Waltz is beautiful, maddening, and sexy, just like its protagonist Margot (Michelle Williams). Margot speaks like a toddler to her husband Lou (Seth Rogen). She's moody but playful, and she has cutesy and symbolic neuroses like in... MORE