TAKE THIS WALTZ - Mongrel Media

Take This Waltz – Synopsis
When Margot (Michelle Williams), 28, meets Daniel (Luke Kirby), their chemistry is intense and
immediate. But Margot suppresses her sudden attraction; she is happily married to Lou (Seth
Rogen), a 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. 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.
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Take This Waltz stars Oscar and BAFTA‐nominee Michelle Williams (Blue Valentine, Shutter
Island, Wendy & Lucy, Brokeback Mountain), Luke Kirby (The Samaritan, Tell Me You Love Me,
Labor Pains, Mambo Italiano), Seth Rogen (Green Hornet, Superbad, Knocked Up), and Emmynominated
Sarah Silverman (The Sarah Silverman Program).
Take This Waltz is written and directed by Academy Award nominee, Sarah Polley (Oscar
nominee for Best Adapted Screenplay for Away From Her), and is produced by Accent
Entertainment’s Susan Cavan (Kids in the Hall, Citizen Duane) and Sarah Polley. Filming took
place in Toronto and Cape Breton, Nova Scotia from July 12‐August 31, 2010.
Cinematography by Luc Montpellier (Cairo Time, Away From Her), editing by Chris Donaldson
(Kids in the Hall: Death Comes to town, Slings & Arrows), production design by Matthew Davies
(The Samaritan, Casino Jack, Blindness, Saddest Music in the World), music by Jonathan
Goldsmith (Casino Jack, Away From Her), and costume design by Lea Carlson (This Movie is
Broken, Tracey Fragments).
Take This Waltz is produced with the financial participation of Telefilm Canada, TF1 Droits
Audiovisuels, Ontario Media Development Corporation and Astral’s Harold Greenberg Fund. It is
distributed in Canada by Mongrel Media and TF1 International is handling all international sales.
Take This Waltz Production Notes
Take This Waltz begins with heat. Margot is baking muffins in the sweltering humidity of a
Toronto summer. Heat radiates from the oven, sunlight filters through the windows, and as
Margot leans up against the stove, the film becomes a sensory experience. Take This Waltz is
the second feature film from writer/director Sarah Polley, based on her screenplay which made
the coveted Black List in 2009. Whereas Polley’s feature film directorial debut, Away From Her,
was the tender story of a couple in the winter of their married life, Take This Waltz follows a
younger couple, married for only a few years, moving from the springtime of their romance,
settling into what should be a warm, loving life together.
Set in Polley’s hometown of Toronto, she proudly admits that she romanticizes the city, and
wanted to show her affection for the tree‐lined streets and downtown residential areas tucked
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