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Review: Take this Waltz

“Despite Polley’s intimacy with the material, and yet another wrenching performance from Michelle Williams, there are more than one too many missteps in this painfully uneven melodrama. Likely to turn many viewers into leaky faucets by the time the credits stream, its should help certify Polley as Canada’s foremost soul crusher.”
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Take this Waltz


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“Despite Polley’s intimacy with the material, and yet another wrenching performance from Michelle Williams, there are more than one too many missteps in this painfully uneven melodrama. Likely to turn many viewers into leaky faucets by the time the credits stream, its should help certify Polley as Canada’s foremost soul crusher.”

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Blake Williams is an avant-garde filmmaker born in Houston, currently living and working in Toronto. He recently entered the PhD program at University of Toronto's Cinema Studies Institute, and has screened his video work at TIFF (2011 & '12), Tribeca (2013), Images Festival (2012), Jihlava (2012), and the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley. Blake has contributed to IONCINEMA.com's coverage for film festivals such as Cannes, TIFF, and Hot Docs. Top Films From Contemporary Film Auteurs: Almodóvar (Talk to Her), Coen Bros. (Fargo), Dardennes (Rosetta), Haneke (Code Unknown), Hsiao-Hsien (Flight of the Red Balloon), Kar-wai (Happy Together), Kiarostami (Where is the Friend's Home?), Lynch (INLAND EMPIRE), Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs), Van Sant (Last Days), Von Trier (The Idiots)

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