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Take This Waltz [DVD]

Michelle Williams , Seth Rogen , Sarah Polley    Suitable for 15 years and over   DVD
3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (55 customer reviews)
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  • Actors: Michelle Williams, Seth Rogen, Luke Kirby
  • Directors: Sarah Polley
  • Format: PAL
  • Language: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: studiocanal
  • DVD Release Date: 7 Jan 2013
  • Run Time: 111 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (55 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B008CPH0A8
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 11,456 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)

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"What's missing?" is a question contemplated at some point in every relationship. Margot (Michelle Williams) loves her husband Lou (Seth Rogan), but sometimes she feels unaccountably empty and anxious. When she meets Daniel (Luke Kirby), she denies her instant attraction because she's a happily married woman. But when chance and circumstance continue to throw the two together, Margot's restlessness and longing override her fear of the unknown and she acts on their mutual attraction. Margot's choice permanently alters her relationship with both Lou and Daniel, but what eventually becomes apparent is that true happiness depends more on learning to love oneself than on the love received from others.

Take This Waltz is an introspective, leisurely paced film that is sometimes graphic, is always heartfelt, and says more through meaningful looks and telling actions than with actual words. Luckily, Williams excels in this type of role and Rogan and Kirby also prove up to the challenge. --Tami Horiuchi

Product Description

When Margot (Michelle Williams) meets Daniel (Luke Kirby), their chemistry is intense and immediate. But Margot suppresses her sudden attraction; she is happily married to Lou (Seth Rogen), a cookbook writer. When Margot learns that Daniel lives across the street from them, the certainty about her domestic life shatters. She and Daniel steal moments throughout the summer, their eroticism heightened by their restraint.

Swelteringly hot, bright and colourful 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.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Not quite up to expectations 7 Feb 2013
By S. J. Williams TOP 500 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
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I watched this on the strength of Michelle Williams' presence: since first seeing her in the magnificent 'Station Agent', she has proved herself to be an outstanding actress who has often been in quirky, indie films which focus on character and eschew the glossy production values of standard Hollywood fare. (Try 'Blue Valentine', 'Meek's Cutoff', 'Wendy and Lucy', as well as the more mainstream 'Brokeback Mountain' and 'Marilyn'.) In that context, this is something of a disappointment, though still eminently watchable. I was also interested to see another Sarah Polley film as an earlier acclaimed film had left me cold: I really wanted to see what I might have missed about her work.

The basic premise is interesting enough, of a woman falling out of love and finding emotional and sexual liberation outside her marriage, and I find it very difficult to put my finger on why it doesn't quite succeed, though I think part of the problem lies with Seth Rogan: for me he seems so limited in conveying a character who is interesting or appealing enough to have attracted Margot that it is hard to believe their relationship ever existed, though conversely, I suppose, one can see why she wishes for escape! His voice, for example, is utterly lacking in flexibility and nuance.

Some of the elements suggest a romcom package: her phobias which prompt the pretence of disability to enable her to cope with them; Lou's (Rogan) exclusive focus on chicken cookery; the stranger on the plane who happens to live over the street and earns money selling rickshaw rides. And yet the film presents it all 'for real', and not entirely convincingly so. The arrival of the ending seems clumsily delayed so the sense of the story arc is mismanaged (and I really don't think Polley is 'playing' with audience expectation in an interesting or subversively creative way). The, for want of a better description, sexual montage which we see towards the end, presumably inserted to show how far Margot has moved on, is not convincingly presented as a plausible development. Or perhaps she has just got herself into another relationship that isn't 'right'. But that's a guess, not anything the film really seems to imply or illuminate.

I found Polley's previous film 'Away From Her'(acclaimed by critics), a real damp squib too, doubly disappointing as family experience made me particularly eager to see a thoughtful film about the effects of dementia within a relationship: that too was only OK, and not a film I would want to see again.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars What a curious film 31 Jan 2013
By Lark TOP 1000 REVIEWER
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I never heard anything about this film before viewing it and I dont know any of the actors besides one of the male protagonists who I believe also starred in SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT The Green Hornet.

It is the story of an unhappily married woman who is wooed by a new neighbour, it switches between the home dynamic between her and her distracted and inconsistent husband, the bohemian neighbour and his efforts at seduction and family and friends.

I am unsure of any major themes, although the characters are interesting but lacking in any real depth, the acting is good and probably the better for not being a feature which has a lot of big names.

Perhaps there are some themes about age (the contrast between young and old, childish or childlike character), crisis or priorities (contrasts between alcoholism and other crisis, the husband appears to "fiddle while rome burns" focusing on his cookery writing rather than his wife) and maybe the song "Video killed the radio star" has some significance.

There are a number of nude scenes, including some in the showers after the female lead and her friends have been to a swim aerobics class, which didnt seem that necessary and a later montage of sexual antics was the same.

I have used the word curious in the title of the review because that is how I feel about this film, it is not exactly compelling viewing or worthy of a lot of discussion or rewatching but if you possess any curiosity you will feel like watching it to the finish. Whether or not you feel it was worthwhile or not will be in question, if you like features of this kind (I am thinking Amelie [DVD] [2001] or Lost in Translation [DVD] [2004] but those are features with more rewatch value than this production).
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars a love affair ......... with Canada 28 Jan 2013
By Don Panik TOP 500 REVIEWER
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I was sufficiently intrigued by this film to watch the included extra - which includes interviews with Canadian director/actor Sarah Polley, and various members of the cast. I was glad that I did, because it helped to explain the sense of emptiness that I was left with after watching the film. In a way that was the point - that there is a part of most of us that feels there is something missing in our lives when we settle in to cosy domesticity.

The most striking thing about the film for me was the lighting and the way it was shot. The sense of bright, hot and humid Toronto was brilliantly captured. In fact this is sometimes like an advert for Canada - those beautiful brightly painted shabby chic houses in downtown Toronto, the wilds of Nova Scotia, not to forget the soundtrack featuring Leonard Cohen and Feist channeling Ron Sexsmith. Not quite sure they got it right with the Buggles choice for the fairground scene, but perhaps I missed some deeper reference?

Michelle Williams does a great job here, bringing an authenticity to a role that could have come across as a bit shallow. 'Happily married' but inextricably drawn to the sexy neighbour. She does manage to capture the sense of desire, denial, and ultimately hard gained knowledge that falling in love does not change the world and everyone has to learn to deal with 'the fade'. I thought Luke Kirby as Daniel also managed to find something rather special in his performance, which went deeper than his attractiveness. Sarah Silverman is surprisingly good as well and really sums up in the key line of the movie for me - "Life has a gap in it. It just does. You don't go crazy trying to fill it like some lunatic". Ironic coming from a alcoholic that has just fallen off the wagon.

This won't be everyone's cup of tea. The pace is languid for the most part, but then shoots forward towards the end. This is more about emotion than action. Overall: worthwhile
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
3.0 out of 5 stars Odd little film
This is an okay little film if a bit strange. It's about the entropy in a relationship and being dissatisfied with your life. Read more
Published 4 days ago by Olivarovich
2.0 out of 5 stars Not brilliant
I was expecting a fun video peppered with laughter and fun. Instead I watched an annoying Character called Margot. Read more
Published 4 days ago by foxcylady
3.0 out of 5 stars Ok for a night in, bit slow and contrived
I sat down with my wife to watch this film, not knowing any of the actors.

The plot could have come from any TV soap opera. Read more
Published 5 days ago by Mr. P. Stewart
2.0 out of 5 stars "I thought you were gonna be there when I died."
It's not that easy to pin down quite why Sarah Polley's Take This Waltz doesn't really work: the performances are excellent and there are plenty of strong scenes, yet his tale of... Read more
Published 7 days ago by Trevor Willsmer
4.0 out of 5 stars "Life has a gap in it... It just does."
It took me a while to get into this film but I enjoyed it more as it went on & by the end, was glad that I'd stuck with it. Read more
Published 14 days ago by Sam Woodward
3.0 out of 5 stars Not a chick flick
Ostensibly, this is a film about relationships' absences. In this case the always-excellent Michelle Williams character feels she is missing something in her marriage to Seth... Read more
Published 25 days ago by R. A. Mansfield
3.0 out of 5 stars Funny-ish, emotional-ish, dramatic-ish rom-com-ish
[spoiler alert] Take This Waltz comes hot on the heels of another Michelle Williams-fronted movie about a very happy couple who are set in their ways and perhaps not as... Read more
Published 25 days ago by Ash
5.0 out of 5 stars True to life...
This film has received many mixed reviews from other people, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. It is an Indie film, and if you expect it to be a Hollywood blockbuster or even a... Read more
Published 28 days ago by Cleopatra
4.0 out of 5 stars Margot and Daniel
Margot is married to Lou but wants Daniel. A well acted enjoyable film which shows when a slightly weird writer wife is attracted to the man who lives on the opposite side of the... Read more
Published 1 month ago by misswise
1.0 out of 5 stars `chick flick'
Well we (me and my wife) tried watching this a dozen times and so far just got bored with it. The synopsis tells you more about the story that I can as I just could not get into... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Fletch-a-sketch
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