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Today’s SIFF Pick: Take This Waltz

Michelle Williams and Seth Rogen play a married couple on the brink in this indie drama.

Seth Sommerfeld
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Margot (Williams) and Daniel (Rogen) face a homewrecker in Take This Waltz.

Hot-burning lust or warm, quiet love? That’s the choice at the core of Sarah Polley’s indie drama Take This Waltz. Michelle Williams plays a woman torn between her sweet, loyal husband (Seth Rogen) and her provocative neighbor Daniel (Luke Kirby). As she finds more and more reasons to get away with Daniel, scenes become packed with visual metaphors for her internal conflict, culminating in a beautiful Tilt-A-Whirl scene. And while Williams once again shows why she’s one of the industry’s most acclaimed actresses of late, it’s the warmth of Rogen’s silly-serious cookbook-writing husband that makes her noncommittal wavering feel like a gut-punch.

Screening: May 26 at 7 (Egyptian Theatre).

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SIFF 2012
Thru June 10, various venues, siff.net




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Seth Sommerfeld
Seth Sommerfeld
Assistant Editor (Arts) Seth Sommerfeld runs the arts department at Seattle Met, crafting the magazine's On the Town section, editing the Culture Fiend blog, and contributing to reader service features such as “The Ultimate Seahawks Guide” and the front-of-the-book department, Mudroom. Seth has written about music and culture for Rolling Stone, Spin, Pacific Northwest Inlander, Charleston Post and Courier, Syracuse Post-Standard, and Billings Gazette. He also extensively covered the NBA Draft for years for Fox Sports and NBADraft.net, and was published as part of Myth, Media, and Culture in Star Wars: An Anthology. Originally from Billings, Montana, Seth first lived in Washington while earning an undergraduate degree in journalism and broadcasting at Gonzaga University. He followed up those studies at Syracuse University, where he earned a master’s degree in arts journalism.