The orchestra conductor character wields 'wile and guile' to gain political currency, the director says. And striving only to leave a legacy is 'a dead end.'
“It was sort of like all of us collectively jumping off a cliff together and trying to grow wings on the way down,” says Todd Field, describing his first day on the job as a movie director since making his last film during the George W. Bush administration. “There was no time to really think about anything other than the fact that we had to be absolutely buttoned up and extremely certain about our choices in terms of how we were going to execute.
“I wouldn’t have made the film without Cate,” says Field, speaking from New York City. “I wrote ‘Tár’ for her because of this very rich conversation she and I had 10-plus years ago about a project we wanted to do together that Joan Didion and I had written. The project never happened but the echo from that conversation was lasting and loud. Cate has a tremendous capacity for looking at narrative outside of her work as a performer and she’s truly one of the great minds of our age.
“Tár” ended the dry spell. “It was nice to have [Focus Features executives] Peter Kujawski and Kiska Higgs say ‘Write whatever you want and we’re making it.’” “After I read John’s book, I called him and for the next three or four weeks, he basically gave me a master class about the language of that world, the references, the way people speak to one another, the inside jokes, all of that. Hopefully, people from the world of classical music who watch this movie aren’t going to say it’s just a toy town version.”
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