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Take This Waltz

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Canada, Spain, Japan · 2011
Rated R · 1h 56m
Director Sarah Polley
Starring Michelle Williams, Seth Rogen, Luke Kirby, Sarah Silverman
Genre Comedy, Drama

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, and Margot is faced with a choice without an easy answer.

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Salon by Andrew O'Hehir

Take This Waltz is frank, erotic, often very funny and sometimes startling, with an underlying tragic sensibility.

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Slant Magazine by Ed Gonzalez

Take This Waltz is full of chance encounters, some less likely than a lobby with nine hundred windows or a bed where the moon has been sweating.

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Variety by Justin Chang

Despite a few tonal and structural missteps, this intelligent, perceptive drama proves as intimately and gratifyingly femme-focused as Polley's 2006 debut, "Away From Her."

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Time Out by Keith Uhlich

The troubling turns the story takes, which are meant as a rebuke to happily-ever-after stereotypes, are much more interesting in conception than they are in execution.

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Village Voice by Melissa Anderson

There are enough unexpected delights, such as repurposing "Video Killed the Radio Star" during a critical moment between Margot and Daniel, to keep us interested in their drawn-out, teasing, tantalizing courtship.

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The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw

In theory, these are twentysomethings we're talking about. But they walk and talk like fortysomethings or fiftysomethings, such is their dullness and self-absorption.

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