Take This Waltz

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Movie
Original title Take This Waltz
Country of production Canada
original language English
Publishing year 2011
length 116 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Sarah Polley
script Sarah Polley
production Susan Cavan
Sarah Polley
music Jonathan Goldsmith
camera Luc Montpellier
cut Christopher Donaldson
occupation

Take This Waltz is a 2011 Canadian drama film. It stars Michelle Williams , Luke Kirby and Seth Rogen , and is directed by Sarah Polley .

action

Margot is 28 and meets Daniel on a trip. The two immediately feel sympathy and are attracted to each other. Margot, however, suppresses her affection for him since she is married to Lou. By chance they meet again on the return flight, they have seats next to each other on the plane. After landing, it turns out that they are immediate neighbors in the residential area Little Portugal . From that moment on, they keep bumping into each other.

During the summer in Toronto the two meet again and again, Margot's reluctance to create increasing, erotic tension. When Daniel realizes that he and Margot will never get together, he decides to move away. On the day of his departure, he throws a postcard in Margot's mailbox with an appointment in the future when the two of them are supposed to meet for their first kiss.

Lou watches how Margot looks longingly after the departing Daniel. He then decides to part ways with Margot because he cannot cope with this situation. He sends Margot so that she can follow Daniel. Margot and Daniel become a couple and live an exciting and unusual life in a spacious loft apartment.

The following months or years are shown with a circling tracking shot in time-lapse , underlaid with the eponymous song by Leonard Cohen . Ultimately, Margot lives the same life with Daniel as he used to with Lou.

One day, Margot is called to her old house about an emergency and meets the family of her ex-husband Lou. Her sister-in-law, the dry-believed alcoholic, has relapsed and is drunk. She berates Margot that she is worse than herself because she just left. Life always had holes, but Margot was stupid to want to fill one of these holes with something else at once. After a short conversation, Margot leaves the house. In the final shot you can see Margot in a fairground carousel. She had already sat in the same carousel, newly in love with Daniel; now she's enjoying the ride alone.

Soundtrack

The following pieces of music were used in the film:

Reviews

“Perhaps it was foreseeable that with a few pounds less in Hollywood, Seth Rogen could easily move from jumping jacks and embarrassing slackers into the ranks of actors who fill a drama and carry it emotionally. [...] But it is the Canadian Sarah Polley who now offers him the space for an unparalleled development in acting, even though he is marginalized in the trio of Take this Waltz. Rogen has never been seen so vulnerably and authentically, without grimaces, without nonsense. "

- critic.de - the film site

Awards

  • Hollywood Film Festival (October 24, 2011): Best Actress - Michelle Williams
  • San Diego Film Critics Society (December 11, 2012): Best Actress - Michelle Williams
  • Vancouver Film Critics Circle (January 9, 2012): Best Actress in a Canadian Film - Michelle Williams

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of release for Take This Waltz . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2013 (PDF; test number: 137 411 K).
  2. ^ Frédéric Jaeger: Take This Waltz. critic.de - the film page, April 21, 2012, accessed on January 15, 2013 .