2011 Sundance Bonus Predictions: Sarah Polley’s Take This Waltz

#60. Take This Waltz – Sarah Polley

We got all excited when we saw a whole bunch of stills from the AFM, but will Take This Waltz be ready in time for Park City? Wishful thinking perhaps, but Polley has a strong Sundance connection, as an actress, former juror and director – she did show Away From Her. If ready in time, fest programmers would have rolled out the equivalent to a red carpet a while time back especially with Seth Rogen, Michelle Williams, Sarah Silverman and Luke Kirby in the line-up. If invited, this would take up inventory space in the Premieres section and stir up a strong bidding war. 

When 28-year-old Margot (Williams) meets Daniel (Kirby), their chemistry is intense and immediate. But Margot suppresses her sudden attraction: she is happily married to Lou (Rogen), a celebrated cookbook writer. When Margot learns that Daniel lives across the street from them, the certainty about her domestic life shatters. She and Daniel steal moments throughout the steaming Toronto summer, their eroticism heightened by their restraint. Margot finally gives in to desire and in doing so, discovers some unsettling truths about herself. Swelteringly hot, bright and colorful like a bowl of fruit, Take This Waltz leads us, laughing, through the familiar but uncharted question of what long-term relationships do to love, sex, and our images of ourselves.

* Producers: Susan Cavan and Polley
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