Sarah Polley started acting when she was 4, in her native Canada. She earned critical acclaim for her performance as a teenage girl injured in a school bus crash in Atom Egoyan’s film The Sweet Hereafter.
Polley made her debut as a director with the subtle and devastating film Away from Her — a portrait of a marriage later in life, as the wife (Julie Christie) is pulled away by Alzheimer’s disease.
Now, at 33, she’s made a second feature film, called Take This Waltz. It’s about a young couple (Michelle Williams and Seth Rogen) in a relationship that’s settled into flat routine; when a handsome artist and rickshaw driver moves into the neighborhood, the marriage is threatened.
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