How Sarah Polley's TAKE THIS WALTZ Is A Love Letter About Toronto | From Studio 9

Sarah Polley followed up AWAY FROM HER, and firmly established herself as a writer-director, with this funny, moving drama that questions the value and sustainability of long-term relationships.

Twenty-eight-year-old freelance writer Margot (four-time Academy Award nominee Michelle Williams) is happily married to Lou (Seth Rogen), a good-natured cookbook author. But when Margot meets Daniel (Luke Kirby) while on a work trip, their mutual attraction is obvious and immediate. To make matters even more complicated, it turns out that Daniel lives across the street. The two begin spending time together and try to restrain themselves from doing things they might regret, but the sweltering Toronto summer has a way of making certain desires more urgent. There are no easy answers here, no heroes or villains. The emotional texture of the performances ― perhaps most surprisingly from Rogen, whose depth of feeling proves as potent as his gift for comedy ― only heightens the film’s complex dance of love. Borrowing its title from Leonard Cohen’s ode to desire and pain, itself adapted from a poem by Federico García Lorca, Take This Waltz is grounded in a struggle that’s familiar to so many of us, but when imbued with such specificity and rawness, never gets old.

Take This Waltz was an official selection of the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival.

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[LaurenMAguirre]

She is brilliant. This has been one of my randomly found favorite movies for years now. I’d watch it standing at my small tv over my apartment clothing dresser in my first ever apartment with roommates feeling like I was too young in my 20’s to understand it but I wasn’t. The love they feel and chemistry to me at the time was insane. Now I kind of can’t look for that poetic thing in my love life and life in general that’s more real life.

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i just rewatched the film and really enjoyed seeing it again. I also just saw Women Talking and was blown away. Love Sarah Polley great filmmaker.

[chandrapeskin]

Yes, I rewatched the film and so happy that I did because it is beautifully filmed & acted. The scene in the cafe, the underwater sort of dance sequence & the “waltz” scene is so evocative 🙌🏽Just in awe. I hope Sarah uses Luke Kirby again in her future projects. 😊👏🏽

[priscillad]

I saw this movie years ago, every time I take a shower and a cold jet of water comes on my back I remember this movie 😂

[KyloRen]

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[KyloRen]

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Happy Birthday ✌️ U🎵 WHOO Happy Birthday Sarah Polley. UR awesome and beautiful. I love Dawn of the Dead. U were pretty badass Nurse. Watching Zombie movies is awesome. Dawn of the Dead looks similar to 28 Days Later & 28 Weeks Later, love those movies... still. Your great. May the Peace be with u Ana. From Harlingen Texas. January 8, 1979
January 8, 2023 through January 8, 3023

[joanneg]

Good performances in this film. I thought Sarah Silverman and Seth Rogen were terrific!

[CGMedia]

Her hatred of men is a level of misandry that I never knew existed, let alone deemed acceptable.