Synopsis
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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Cast
- Michelle WilliamsMargot
- Seth RogenLou
- Luke KirbyDaniel
- Sarah SilvermanGeraldine
- Jennifer PodemskiKaren
- Diane D'AquilaHarriet
- Vanessa CarterTony
- Graham AbbeyJames
- Damien AtkinsAquafit Instructor
- Aaron AbramsAaron
Recommendations
- 80
Salon
Take This Waltz is frank, erotic, often very funny and sometimes startling, with an underlying tragic sensibility. - 80
Variety
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." - 75
ReelViews
The film's emotional truth and honesty allows us to forgive a great many flaws. - 70
Village Voice
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. - 67
Entertainment Weekly
By never standing back from Margot, the movie courts vagueness as well. - 63
Slant Magazine
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. - 60
Boxoffice Magazine
Williams embodies Margot's inner turmoil with an unfussy sense of terrified instability. - 60
Time Out
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.
