Review of Take This Waltz (2011) by Lahaine2012 — 29 Jul 2012
Take this Waltz is a mellow movie, which takes a deep (and sometimes cynical) look at marital dissatisfaction. I liked this one a lot; thanks to its great mix of quirk and sorrow, and curve balls at the end that made it even better.
Michelle Williams gives another excellent performance in an already excellent career; as the neurotic wife grappling with infidelity. Sarah Silverman also gives a surprisingly solid performance. And Sarah Polley knows how to direct a movie, adding a lot of style and complexities to what could have been a straightforward and immediate film.
She films this movie with bright, upbeat imagery (thanks, in part to the cinematographer) that appropriately mingles with the sorrow that lies within each of the movie's characters and her overall examination on infidelity was quite insightful.
The movie is erotic, smoothly edited, and even though the dialogue was a little hammy at times, it was really quite good, naturalistic and worked well with the quirk.
This review of Take This Waltz (2011) was written by Lahaine2012 on 29 Jul 2012.
Take This Waltz has generally received positive reviews.
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