"Take This Waltz" or Please Don't Take my Wife

The film "Take This Waltz," by Sarah Polley stars Michelle Williams as Margot who is married to Lou, (Seth Rogen.)  The movie opens on a re-enactment of a colonial flogging and public humiliation of an adulterer.  Margot is called from the crowd to administer the flogging and is egged on by Daniel, played by Luke Kirby; the devil incarnate.  The audience is hit over the head with where this movie is headed.     Adultlery is no longer branded with a scarlet letter,  but it does leave a brand of pain in its wake.  Lou plays the injured husband with sobering pain.  Lou's alcoholic sister, Geraldine, (Sarah Silverman) is also convincing in her fight with her demons.  (Perhaps, comic genuis is honed through misery.)  The temptress, Daniel, in this love triangle is swarthy and sexy in his pursuit of Margot.  Although I think the lady doth not protest too much.  The movie is over wraught with maudlin dialogue.  But, there is one hilarious women's water aerobic class that is literally pissing in the pool funny.   It is in the women's shower after that Margot & Geraldine discuss the merits of steadfastness in a marriage with their friend who says that everyone likes something new and shiney.  The older & wiser women in the  showers, counter that everything new gets old.  The contrast between the old and young women's bodies says it loud and clear.