If I remember correctly there were two reasons for
seeing Take This Waltz (2011), the first was the lead actress. I
initially encountered Michelle Williams in Thomas McCarthy’s 2003 debut feature
film The Station Agent, which became one of my all time favourite films. Her other stand out movies have
included Brokeback Mountain (2005), Blue
Valentine (2010) and the exceptionally enjoyable My
Week with Marilyn (2011), a film
for which she should have won the Oscar for Best Actress which unfortunately
went to Meryl Streep for playing The Iron
Lady (2011).
The second reason was the Canadian actress, director
and screenwriter Sarah Polley who had previously directed the award winning Away From Her (2006) about a couple
whose marriage is tested when the wife, played by Julie Christie, begins to
suffer from Alzheimer’s and moves into a Residential Care Home.
Michelle Williams. |
But I’m afraid that her latest film is not a patch on this
previous movie, in fact it’s shallow, limp and boring with characters you would
feel embarrassed to know. A 28-year-old freelance writer Margot (Williams)
whose married to Lou Rubin, a lump of a man played by a so-called comedy actor
called Seth Rogan. When a new neighbour (Luke Kirby) moves into the house
opposite, Margot can’t help forming an attraction but spends most of the film
desperately trying to stay out of the mans bed. Mind you when your married to
an idiot that spends most of his waking day cooking chickens and playing silly
games who would blame her from wondering. Take my advice give this one amiss.
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