Take This Waltz: movie review
In Sarah Polley鈥檚 鈥�Take This Waltz,鈥� Michelle Williams plays Margot, a not-quite-happily married wife who strays. Her husband, Lou (Seth Rogen, in a good, uncharacteristically tamped-down performance), writes cookbooks. Her lover, Daniel (Luke Kirby), is an aspiring artist who pulls a rickshaw. It鈥檚 as contrived as it sounds.
Margot spends a lot of time in the sweltering Toronto summertime looking wan and winsome. The very odd Daniel looks he鈥檚 pulled one too many rickshaws. Lou鈥檚 upcoming book, though 鈥� it鈥檚 titled 鈥淭astes Like Chicken鈥� 鈥� sounds like a winner.
Polley has a sometimes graceful understanding of emotional temperate zones and Williams, when she isn鈥檛 being zombielike, is touching. But Margot comes across as such an elusive and unsympathetic twit that you wonder why we should care about her. Grade: C+ (Rated R for language, some strong sexual content and graphic nudity.)
