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After a career as an actress, Sarah Polley made her directorial debut with Away From Her<\/em>, landing Oscar nominations for both her screenplay and Julie Christie’s performance. Her follow-up would be a slight gear shift: the intimate character study of infidelity, Take This Waltz. The film stars Michelle Williams as a writer who begins to feel a divide between her and her husband (Seth Rogen), exacerbated by her lust for her rickshaw-operating neighbor (Luke Kirby). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This episode, we talk about our love for Polley and the film’s inquisitive (if a bit divisive) portrait of marital malaise. We also discuss Sarah Silverman’s well-regarded supporting performance, Rogen’s very booked-and-busy first years of stardom, and the film’s expert use of “Video Killed the Radio Star.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Topics also include Toronto geography, Dying for Sex<\/em>, and Williams joins our Six Timers Club.<\/p>\n