Take This Waltz (2012)
Twenty-eight-year-old Margot is happily married to Lou, a good-natured cookbook author. But when Margot meets Daniel, a handsome artist who lives across the street, their mutual attraction is undeniable.
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Too much of everything
Redundant and unnecessary.
Highly Overrated But Still Good
Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful
Many people do not appreciate dramas like these that portray people as they are, raw, imperfect and perpetually seeking out what's behind door number two. "Life has a gap in it. You don't go crazy trying to fill it." In the case of Take this Waltz, you do. Margot (Michelle Williams) shows us what the possibilities are when the grass isn't greener on the other side, love doesn't fulfill, and what opening the other door can do to your life when the reward isn't greater. Seth Rogan does an exceptional job of not being Seth Rogan. He truly stepped outside of himself for this role and showed more depth as an actor. I genuinely appreciated the film and my only criticism would be Michelle William's unsightly, high school, emo comb over part. The awkwardness between Seth Rogan and Michelle William's character is hysterical and insufferable which makes the film even greater. I love that it is directed and written by Sarah Polley. I can't wait to see what she does next.
....and it is the four-year-female-feral-sexual-cycle.Evolutionary biology equips us (for better or worse) with an ingrained memory of a short life, and an even shorter reproductive cycle.Back in the caveman-and-cave-woman days, women would reject their mates roughly four years after the 1st offspring; the reason is quite simple: the need to avoid congenital defects.(Let me be the 1st to admit that I'm not a biologist or a psychologist, but I have read a little about the phenomenon. And let's not forget that culture matters - society-wide, the concept of life-long marriage, a general disdain for divorce and the need to raise children with both parents have pretty clear purposes, but the notion of 'falling out of love' has its roots in the four-year-female-feral-sexual-cycle.... furthermore let's also keep in mind that some men really can be jerks, but that's not the case here).This plays out in 'Take This Waltz.' Margot has been married to Lou for five years, meets a dark, handsome stranger and all-of-a-sudden finds there are 'gaps' in her life.She then feels somewhat guilty about leaving her husband, but by the end of the movie we see how effective that guilt really was.Michelle Williams did a great job as Margot, and Seth Rogen, surprisingly, was not a jerk, but a sensitive guy who simply cannot read his wife's mind.I give it an 8 out of 10, because it really does put women in a less-than-flattering light (most TV and a not-a-few movies follow the 85% rule - since women make or influence 85% of consumer purchases, never portray a woman as anything less than perfect and avoid showing men in a sympathetic light); hats off to the director for a 'warts-and-all' approach to portraying partners in a relationship.
At first when I watched this film I thought it too slow. Since then, after watching it again, and thinking more on it, it's now become a favorite film. Each time I see Michelle Williams on screen, I gain more respect for her, and realize just how great an actor she is. Enthralled by her outrageously outstanding performance in 'Incendiary' made me come back to TTW again. She is hands down one of the finest performers of her generation. And IMHO this movie shows the wide range of Seth Rogen's talent, he should do many more films like it. One reviewer wrote of the film.. "Lou was willing to go through the trenches because he's sharing his life with Margot.. while she's just an activity for Daniel." Definitely watch it, and if you've already seen it... watch it again.
No, this didn't work for me. Slow moving, not romantic, not funny, not charming or quirky (in a good way) mostly just weird and at times making no sense whatsoever. Maybe I should stop watching these Indie films, I obviously don't "get" them.Michelle Williams plays a seemingly happily married woman (to Seth Rogan) who falls for the neighbor across the street. Her performance is good but I never understood her character, there's no real angst in her relationship, she just gets bored I guess. For whatever reason there's also lot of (pointless) nudity from all the women, the shower scene after the water aerobics. Williams is naked a ton; showering, peeing, having sex. More pubes than I've seen in a long time. Sarah Silverman is here too, also naked and unfunny. A lot of comedians in an unfunny jumbled mess of a movie. 7/26/14