After her impressive debut feature AWAY FROM HER in 2006, Canadian actress, writer, director Sarah Polley ventures into more personal territory with TAKE THIS WALTZ. It stars MICHELLE WILLIAMS as Margot who is married to Lou - SETH ROGAN. Their relationship relies on babyish games that were obviously a turn-on in the past but have now passed their use-by date. And then on a working trip Margot meets Daniel - LUKE KIRBY. Coincidences abound, he's sitting on the plane next to her on their return and it turns out he lives opposite Margot and Lou in Toronto.

Margot is torn between loyalty to her marriage and her attraction to Daniel.

There is something searingly honest about Margot's plight. This is a woman who wants to feel alive. If any actress working today can bring a truth to a role like this it's Michelle Williams. She is never less than intensely, bewitchingly watchable. Seth Rogan is maturing beautifully as an actor and Luke Kirby is very charismatic. If sometimes Polley's choices grate - Daniel is a rickshaw driver and part-time artist, Lou a writer of chicken cookbooks, and their worlds are so insistently inner city twee - there is no doubting the sincerity with which she made Take This Waltz.

The Leonard Cohen song to which the title refers inspired Polley while writing it and informs the whole.

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