Because I suffer from a bit of Sarah Polley worship I saw her latest film, Take This Waltz, as soon as I was able. I can't fault her for lightening up after her last, Away From Her, so much so that this one may seem slight in comparison. But it packs a candy-colored wallop, with Michelle Williams doing her naturalistic best as Margo, a woman married to an affable cook (Seth Rogen) who finds herself irresistibly drawn to a rickshaw driver named Daniel (Luke Kirby). Polley's script plays on particularly female fantasies -- Daniel doesn't seem a character so much as a figment of Margo's restless imagination -- but it does so with such skill that the film stays with you, as it stayed with me, for days. The Leonard Cohen song of the title plays over the seemingly inevitable (but idiosyncratically staged) climax, and the whole thing makes Toronto's summer streets look to be perpetually lit in the golden hour. I really, really want to go to there.
3 comments:
I have been so, so bored with movies lately, but also really not in the know. I will definitely be checking this one out, thanks!
Totally looking forward to seeing this one, thanks for the review!
i loved it. it was very different. i thought seth was able to win you over in this one when in the past he hasn't been great at that. its one of those movies you want to point out to your spouse that, if ever they should think it, the grass is never greener on the other side.
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