Take This Waltz
Synopsis
Margot and Lou are a happily married couple living a quiet, comfortable existence. After years of being together, they have settled for contentment and security over excitement. But when she falls in love with Daniel, their handsome and charismatic neighbor, her life is suddenly thrown out of order.
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The results waver from dreamy to grating and back, but I won’t soon forget Williams whooshing across the screen in a carnival ride to “Video Killed the Radio Star” or trying not to lose control of her smile as she grows more and more moist before Kirby’s erotic monologue.
Fernando F. Croce
September 04, 2012
In many ways, Margot is a modern day Blanche DuBois, implicitly echoing the latter’s cry that “I don’t want realism… I want magic! Yes, yes, magic!” Yet ultimately, the bittersweet truth of Polley’s beautiful film is that it’s inevitable: no matter who we love, we are always ourselves, and with it we are always alone.
Catherine Wheatley
August 17, 2012
The movie is little but an extended romantic tease leading to an inevitable conclusion which is rendered all the more obvious by a series of plot points displaying the old-shoe ordinariness of the husband. The over-intentionalized screenplay is matched by the performances, and the cinematography lurches between blank and purple, with almost nothing in between. Yet the movie is compelling, precisely for its doctrinaire and deterministic elements.
Richard Brody
July 03, 2012
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