Spoiler aleter spoiler alert spoiler alert she does end up leaving lou for daniel and lou has the best reaction youre going to get. Some will be rightfully fooled into describing take this waltz as a romantic comedy, but the movies laughs add to the humanity of the people in it instead of mocking them. When margot michelle williams, 28, meets daniel luke kirby, their chemistry is intense and immediate. In the broad strokes, take this waltz is an exceptionally good, if unrelentingly dour depiction of the way that marriages deflate. Take this waltz 911 movie clip the breakup 2011 hd. Croatian singer ibrica jusic recorded this song as mali becki valcer on his 1999. Dancing around the subject of infidelity the globe. Luke kirby and michelle williams in a scene from take this waltz. There is a lot of truth in this portrait of a marriage running out of the will to survive. After watching take this waltz, my husband and i spent some time exploring. Take this waltz 2012 soundtrack complete list of songs.
Aey, aey, aey, aey take this waltz, take this waltz take this waltz, its been dying for years theres an attic where children are playing where ive got to lie down with you soon in a dream of hungarian lanterns in the mist of some sweet afternoon and ill see what youve chained to your sorrow all your sheep and your lillies of snow aey, aey, aey, aey take this waltz, take this waltz with its ill never forget you, you know this waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz with its very own. It explores, with great intelligence, what happens in relationships when they feel settled and when something or someone comes along to destabilize. Video killed the radio star the buggles take this waltz 2011 duration. Margot, a freelance writer, meets daniel, an artist and rickshaw operator, while on a business trip, and although they immediately. Like atlas shrugged, its a vehemently pseudonietzschean film, the subject of which is not the power of desire but the power of beautiful people. Just wanted to say, that often things have deeper meanings that. Take this waltz, is a metaphor and this is made beautifully clear in a pivotal montage near the end of the film. When margot, 28, meets daniel, their chemistry is intense and immediate. Michelle williams, playing the lead role of margot. Sarah polleys sophomore directorial effort take this waltz stars michelle williams as margot, a 28yearold toronto woman who has been married for. Take this waltz is so truthful and honest a film that on the rare occasions it hits a false note or becomes overexplicit or sentimental, it really jars. However, it is so much more than that, as it also contains lot of quirky humor, some great directorial work and cinematography by director sarah polley, and is brilliantly acted. That moment of devastation, the feelings of selfdoubt, and the realization that youve made a horrible decision to end a relationship is where sarah polleys take this waltz lives.
Even by canadian cinema standards, take this waltz has a certain selfflagellating aspect. Listen to and download the music, ost, score, list of songs and trailers. The film is so obsessed with small detail and drawnout, atypical. Swelteringly hot, bright and colorful, take this waltz leads us, laughing, through the familiar, but uncharted question of what longterm. Shortly after glass sends fitzgerald downstream to endure a horrific death. As in the above lines from take this waltz, there is no possibility to speak what we feel, and shockingly, to even not speak what we ought to say.
Its an entire move designed to recreate that feeling, and while it takes a while to deliver the knockout punch, when it lands, the blow feels catastrophic. Take this waltz, written and directed by sarah polley, follows a married woman and single man as they navigate their attraction. Sarah polleys film is one of the best films of the decade because it asks the most from us. Even silverman has to contend with melodramatic, plotprovoking alcoholism. Sarah polleys beautifully acted film about a marriage in crisis and an liberating affair. What is the intended meaning behind the ending of take. Leonard cohen take this waltz lyrics genius lyrics. The move on meaning, get going, nothing to see here, even though of.
It was released on netflix streaming in june, 2017. Thats the whole story minus the ending, which i wont reveal, and while its possible to make great art about the situation of a woman struggling with just such a choice, take this waltz. Take this waltz is beautiful, thoughtprovoking, and filled with graceful, cinematic moments and breathtaking performances. Take this waltz is a meditation on restlessness that of the main character, margot michelle williams, and, for me anyway, on the restlessness induced in many of us by a culture obsessed with the new. Margot or lou gain no closure, even a year later, and the last thing lou says is a stab at the oneupmanship of their old love threats.
Take this waltz qualifies and taking it together with polleys. Sarah polleys latest movie is an occasionally heartfluttering but mostly. Williams should be lauded for volunteering for this experiment and selling it as well as she does, especially when you consider that kirby is a total unknown and rogen is a poster child for modern comedy, for formulaic comedies that are such a far cry from take this waltz. A classic story of a married woman who falls for a beautiful stranger. An immediate attraction is formed and margot is able to open up and discuss some of her fears and longings. One of the films biggest symbols is an amusementpark ride that margot describes as. When my wife and i separated it was so much like the movie that i identified so strongly with the characters, especially lou that i have been ill ever since. What is the intended meaning behind the ending of take this waltz. Michelle williams plays twentyeightyearold margot, happily married to lou seth rogen, a goodnatured cookbook author. All 28 songs from the take this waltz 2012 movie soundtrack, with scene descriptions. This comes through regardless of whether the viewer is aware of the correspondenceshowever superficial or circumstantialbetween sarah polleys first original feature script and the dissolution of her reallife marriage. Polleys second film, take this waltz, based on her own original screenplay.
Sarah polleys take this waltz covers all the territory promised by its name, and, with the addition of a few laughs and a beautiful eye for detail, tells a morality tale about the folly of. In 360 degrees, the camera rounds a couple kissing, set. I wanted to make a film about the concept of emptiness. Aey, aey, aey, aey take this waltz, take this waltz take this waltz, its been dying for years theres an attic where children are playing where ive got to lie down with you soon in a dream of hungarian lanterns in the mist of some sweet afternoon and ill see what youve chained to your sorrow all your sheep and your lillies of snow aey, aey. The first sign that take this waltz is going to be too writerly comes in the very first scene, when toronto parks worker margot michelle williams is coerced by a group of nova scotian historical reenactors into pantomiming flogging an adulterer. The film isnt ruined, its just laughed at and forgotten. Sarah polleys academy awardnominated 2006 film, away from her, built on the structure of alice munros short story and explored infidelity at the end of life. Instead of working on character development and, you know, quality writing, take this waltz too often falls victim to the quirky indie film problem which is to say that it was all style and little substance. Sarah polley alias grace directs this bittersweet, offbeat love story starring michelle williams and seth rogen, asking what longterm relationships do.
The end of the movie is bound to bother a lot of people, while others. She also is sensitive to the troubling fact that husbands and wives go through changes at different speeds and times in their lives. Sarah polleys second film, take this waltz, is a movie ive been awaiting with great anticipation. Vertigo, the 360degree shot here encapsulates the films meaning. Williams is especially good, as is sarah silverman, surprisingly, as lous alcoholic sister, geraldine. I had this idea of having the film beginning and ending with the same image of a woman. Take this waltz, directed by sarah polley the new york. Take this waltz is an unusually kind film about infidelity not because it sidesteps or shortchanges heartbreak, but because it doesnt let any one of its characters bear the full burden of blame. The film opened to 27 theatres and landed at number one in the box office top five. Despite showcasing some great acting, especially from seth rogen and silverman, the film failed to have any emotional resonance with me. I had this idea of having the film beginning and ending with the same image of a woman sweltering hot in kitchen, content but feeling like there.
The opening scene really gives the end away but it is not the end result that is important but the emotional journey which the lead protagonists go on in the menage a trios that develops between margot, daniel and lou. By the end of this fauxophulsian passage we see that the shine has worn off and. I could not watch the film as it was far to painful for me. Take this waltz, directed by sarah polley and starring. Writerdirector sarah polleys away from her was one of the very finest feature debuts of the 2000s, the sort of brilliant that makes it virtually impossible not to eagerly await everything she ever does in the future. Take this waltz highlights some things that are needed for a relationship and the difference between that real relationship and a really good friend that you have sex with. Take this waltz then move on breakups in the age of selfish on. It isnt without its issues, naturally, but what i really want to discuss is a theory that i began developing while watching the film. Sarah polleys take this waltz is one of the most spiritually literate films of 2012.
As in away from her, the director demonstrates a keen insight into the important roles of intimacy and desire in marriages. But when margot meets daniel luke kirby, a handsome artist that lives across the street, their mutual attraction is undeniable. Dont see take this waltz, unless you want to hate your. Take this waltz 2012 rotten tomatoes movie trailers. Michelle williams has such an angelic presence that her very sweetness threatens to undermine sarah polleys take this waltz. Take this waltz arrives at a point that in a less challenging film would mark the happy ending. Ending spoiler for take this waltz 2011, plus mistakes, quotes, trivia and more. Michelle williams stars as a woman whos married to a. Polleys debut film, away from her 2006, established the then27yearold canadian who.
A new trailer for writerdirector sarah polleys romantic drama take this waltz has gone online. Take this waltz official movie site starring michelle. Swelteringly hot, bright and colorful like a bowl of fruit, take this waltz leads us, laughing, through the familiar, but uncharted question of what longterm relationships do to love, sex, and. The film take this waltz directed by sarah polley takes its name from the song which was also featured prominently in the movie. Margot is emotionally unready to become a grownup, with grownup relationships that are about other things than intensity and chemistry, while lou is satisfied and lazy and doesnt seem aware that any work exists. June 2, 20 while hardly a complete failure, waltz nevertheless finds polley dancing to the. Take this waltz i recently watched take this waltz for the second time, and i do think this film holds up. Take this waltz is all about seduction and desire, and about how heightened and unreal everything can seem when a crampedup heart is suddenly. There is a point here when take this waltz seems to be veering precariously toward the magic realism of wes anderson, but sarah polley as an actress the sweet hereafter and filmmaker away from her has a grounding in realism. Take this waltz 2011 ending spoiler movie mistakes. Take this waltz was released on bluray and dvd on october 23, 2012.