MOVIE REVIEW: Cate Blanchett proves herself a maestro in furious and brilliant musical drama TÁR.
The personage of Lydia Tár is so towering and detailed that that it’s possible to forget that she is a work of fiction and not real. A symphonic conductor and music composer, the character is such a well-known icon of Western culture that the title of this movie needs no lure other than her singular name.
Writer/director Todd Field, who says he created the role of Tár with Cate Blanchett in mind to play the legend, gifts us with a rare thing with his third film: a character study of a complicated and commanding woman whom we meet at the top of her game.burrows into the discrepancies between the public image of Lydia Tár and her personal shortcomings.
The multilayered opening scenes of the film mirror the character’s complexities. We get glimpses of her perfectionism and tics as she waits offstage to be introduced to a rapturous audience, but instead of taking the podium to conduct an orchestra as we might expect she takes a seat beside’s cultural critic Adam Gopnik for an in-depth interview.
But even as this extensive interview establishes the character’s bona fides and extraordinary accomplishments, some discomfiting if not fully explicable images also enter the frame. An unidentified hand is seen amending a Wikipedia page. Tár’s assistant Francesca silently mouths the words spoken by Gopnik in his introduction to Tár’s career. And an anonymous gift is left for the conductor .
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