# Take This Waltz

Take This Waltz is a 2011 film comedy-drama film that centers on Margot, a 28-year-old freelance writer as she struggles with and examines her feelings for Lou, her husband of five years, while exploring a new relationship with Daniel, an artist and rickshaw driver who lives across the street.

## Margot

* Sometimes I'm... walking along the street and a shaft of sunlight falls in a certain way across the pavement and I just wanna cry. And then a second later, it's over. I decide because I'm an adult, to not succumb to the momentary melancholy; and I thought that sometimes with Tony, she just had a moment like that. A moment of not known how or why, and she just let herself go into and there was nothing anyone could do to make it any better. It was just her and the fact of being alive, colliding.

## Daniel

* You seem restless, in a kind of permanent way.
* I've been thinking about that airport fear of yours, of being in between things. I think I kinda hate it too. I know it's kind of the nature of being alive, but I'd like to avoid it wherever possible. I don't think I wanna be in between things.

## Geraldine

* Life has a gap in it. It just does. You don't go crazy trying to fill it like some lunatic.

## Lou

* [trying to lighten the mood after Margot has just asked for a divorce] At least I have my testicles.
* [to a hesitant Margot] Get in. What are you doing? What the fuck? You're going to ride in a rickshaw!

## Dialogue

    Margot: I'm married.
    Daniel: Oh. That's too bad.
    [gets out of the taxi]
    Daniel: That's too bad cause I live right here.
    Margot: Oh shit.
    Margot: A dog is like a starter for a kid.
    Lou: No, a dog is like a starter for a cow...or a bigger animal.
    Margot: I'm afraid of being afraid.
    Daniel: That sounds like the most dangerous thing in the world.
    Margot: I'd like to make a date to kiss you.
    Daniel: Well... my schedule's fairly flexible.
    Margot: Is it flexible in 30 years?
    Daniel: 30 years?
    Margot: I'd like to see you at the lighthouse in Louisbourg. I'd like to meet you there. I'll be 58, I don't know how old you'll be...
    Daniel: I'll be 59.
    Margot: I'd like to see you there, on this date, at... 2PM. Eastern Standard time. August 5th, 2040, I'd like to kiss you. Until then, I'm married. But after 35 years of being faithful to my husband I think I'll have earned one kiss from you.
    Lou: Maybe you should take a shower. It'll make you feel better.
    Margot: I don't want to take a shower.
    Lou: Just do me a favor, ok?
    [when Margot is using the shower, Lou splashes cold water on her. Margot always thought the cold water was the result of a plumbing problem and is surprised to see it’s actually just Lou playing a prank]
    Margot: You?
    Lou: Yeah.
    Margot: Every — ?
    Lou: Every day.
    Margot: There's no —
    Lou: [straight-faced] There's no problem with the water. There's nothing to get fixed. I thought when we're 80, I'll tell Margot I've been doing this her whole life, and it'll make her laugh. As kind of a long-term joke.
    Lou: [leaves]
    Margot: [laughs and starts to cry]

## Cast

* Michelle Williams - Margot
* Seth Rogen - Lou Rubin
* Sarah Silverman - Geraldine
* Luke Kirby - Daniel
* Aaron Abrams - Aaron Rubin
* Jennifer Podemski - Karen