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A funny, bittersweet tale of love…
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.
Take This Waltz
2011 Directed by Sarah Polley
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To diko mas vals
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Relationship comedy Moving relationship stories sex, sexuality, relationships, erotic or feelings romance, charming, comedy, delightful or witty marriage, emotion, romance, relationships or feelings biography, artists, musician, emotional or songs romance, emotion, relationships, feelings or captivating Show All…
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I have now been thinking about this film for a good 24 hours, and I can't decide what to write. I give up. Here's a few random thoughts:
1. Michelle Williams is amazing. Absolutely astonishing. Her character is both attractive and annoying as all get out. I don't know how she manages to give such a layered performance. She's wonderful.
2. The colors and use of light are stunning.
3. Sarah Silverman needs to do more dramatic work. She's terrific here. I tweeted her so, and thus I am sure we'll see some more drama soon. She always does what I tweet her. She trusts my judgment.
4. This movie is painful and beautiful. It's not what you expect from Hollywood -- it's about how things really work out.
5. There are flaws, but the overall emotional force and Williams's performance overshadow them.
See it. It's like, good, and stuff.
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If someone were to point out my favorite thing(s) to read, even more than a great novel, it would be essays about something that affected them so deeply that they felt compelled to write about it. It can be short, or it can be 20 pages long. A great author of this approach would be Lester Bangs, who wrote beautifully indulgent music reviews in such an intensely personal way that were so resonant, that for the right reader, you might want to hug the guy for articulating exactly what music can really mean in a way that you’ve been trying to express yourself. I certainly didn’t always agree with Bangs, but I always identified with how insanely wonderful the experience…
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“I want to rape you with a pair of scissors.”
I went into this film for Seth Rogen. Rogen is honestly one of my idols, I’m a huge fan of his comedy and I think his career is absolutely insane. He’s a great actor, director and is an extremely successful producer. I also have a huge infatuation for actors who’re known for comedy but then take a surprising dramatic role and they knock it out of the park. I’ve already seen a few of Rogen’s other dramatic performances e.g. ‘Funny People’ and ‘Steve Jobs’ and he is absolutely fantastic so I was extremely excited to watch this movie.
The acting by everyone is terrific. Michelle Williams headlines the picture and…
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“You seem restless. In a kind of permanent way.”
I'm sorry, but move over Ingmar Bergman because writer-director Sarah Polley with Take This Waltz made the best marriage film I've seen. Yes, Waltz skirts the oft-explored infidelity issue, but this one is about how even the thought and fleeting fantasy of sleeping with someone else can have a paralyzing power over you until the thoughts themselves become its own drug.
Michelle Williams plays Margot, a woman who has probably been a very good person for 30 years of her life and then chooses one critical month to be bad. And she changes too radically all because of it. Williams is an actress whom can play anything, a famous person or…
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gonna have my main character moment the next time i make muffins by leaning by head against the oven as they bake
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I like what Sarah Polley wanted to do with this film.
I like that she tried to display that je ne sais quoi that exists between couples, those moments that can only come into existence when two personalities live together, those moments that you can't recreate in a relationship with someone else. It is a difficult thing to capture on film when you think about it. That might be why Polley choose to focus on the silly games Margot (Michelle Williams) and Lou (Seth Rogen) played. The way we have of being silly with our partners is probably the most distinguishing thing about partnerships. The exact type of silliness can't be transported, as is clearly demonstrated when Margot spends time…
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no room for anything else in my head anymore besides the luke kirby take this waltz sex montage
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* A really great movie.
* It's great to know that one of my old principles (when I was way too serious in my approach about movies and wanted to explore only great ones or a 5/5 experience) still works. That the easiest way to get a 5/5 experience for me is to watch a high Rotten Tomatoes rated movie from the genre drama (pure drama with no other additions). No other genre has given me so many great experiences but they also take a toll out of me emotionally. They are not a lot of fun and are very depressing usually.
* One way I can tell when I have a great movie experience is how much I want…
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What a strange, miraculous little picture.
It seems to belong to the same category of nice indie dramedies that although competent are categorically inessential and end up quickly forgotten after the next one comes out - and according to all the lukewarm reviews it's exactly what it is - but upon a mood-appropriate watch reveals itself to be this terrifically peculiar array of literary, theatrical and cinematic language that's as profoundly poignant as potentially alienating.
It will jump from a realism-bound, carefully orchestrated unbroken shot of a common affair, to these impossibly eloquent monologues about, for example, the fear of having fear and struggling with not letting yourself succumb to momentaneous melancholy (which, damn), and later go on these magical…
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