Disappointing.
Had real potential as a relationship drama, but is clumsily told, and full of pretentiousness. Doesn't fall apart completely - just when you think there is no hope for it, the movie has something semi- profound to say. Sadly, these moments are few and far between.
Good cast wasted. Michelle Williams' dramatic skills are evident in the first half of the movie but from a point, pretty much the same point as when the movie turns to sh*t, her performance becomes one of crying spells and distant stares.
Seth Rogen and Sarah Silverman are great comedic actors but they hardly have a funny line between them. Rogen seemed out of his depth, and clumsy, in a romantic/dramatic role.
Plot summary
Twenty-eight-year-old Margot is happily married to Lou, a good-natured cookbook author. But when Margot meets Daniel, a handsome artist who lives across the street, their mutual attraction is undeniable.
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November 03, 2018 at 03:19 AM
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Polleyanna
I was enjoying this movie anyway when around reel #10 - in a year in which a group of International pseuds saw fit to vote Welles' masterpiece Citizen Kane into second place behind (of all things) Hitchcock's vastly overrated and pretentious pap Vertigo - writer- director Sarah Polley paid tribute to 'Kane' by offering a spin (pun intended) on the breakfast scene from 'Kane', some seventy years after Welles unveiled his innovation. Apart from that this is a fine film any way you look at it and I for one would rather not look at it without Michelle Williams who really gets inside the character that Polley has devised. Of course there are flaws, not least the artist manque who can clearly make enough pulling a rickshaw through the streets of Toronto to fund a flat in a high-rent district, to say nothing of being able to spring for air fares. There are those who have questioned the career of Seth Rogan (Williams' husband), finding an obvious metaphor in a man who writes cookbooks exclusively about chicken dishes, i.e. chicken is one of the blandest of all dishes, Rogan devotes his life to ways of making it interesting in a recipe yet fails to make himself interesting to his wife. With her previous movie, Away From Her, and now Take This Waltz Ms. Polley has shown herself to be a fine filmmaker, not perhaps as fine as Welles - but then who is - but certainly light years better than Hitchcock.
Luke Kirby not enough for Michelle Williams
Margot (Michelle Williams) meets Daniel (Luke Kirby) on a plane ride home. They hit it off and then they realize that they are actually neighbors. She finds him intriguing and rethinks her bland marriage to Lou (Seth Rogen). Sarah Silverman plays Margot's friend Geraldine.
Writer/director Sarah Polley is trying to dive into the emotions of cheating. And it feels manufactured. There is something artificial about the attraction between Margot and Daniel. There is just not enough chemistry between the two. Seth Rogen puts in a nice piece of work. It helps that he has the most compelling scene in the movie. (water in the shower, I'll say no more) Michelle Williams has done this character before, and she does it well. She's the magnificent beauty who doesn't know herself. I have to put this down as a minor sophomore jinx for Sarah Polley after 'Away from Her'. Not too bad but I expect bigger and better things to come.