Movie review: An icy-hot paradox of a film, and one of the year’s peak achievements, writer-director Todd Field’s “Tár” casts a gimlet eye on a fictional American orchestra conductor and composer.
Cate Blanchett portrays a formidable, fearsome orchestra conductor in Todd Field's drama"Tár."
We meet Lydia in the wings of the latest stage she’s about to conquer: A New Yorker Festival talk with Adam Gopnik, where they discuss her prized tutelage under the baton of “Lenny” Bernstein, her forthcoming memoir and her newest conducting and recording project . As a maestro she truly has arrived, now at the helm of the Berlin Philharmonic.In Berlin, she makes her home in a sleek Brutalist concrete-walled flat with her watchful partner, Sharon , and their daughter, Petra .
The movie has an irresistible rubbernecking appeal, as Blanchett’s character finds herself drawn to a dazzling young cellist whom, with conspicuous speed, Lydia hires and then elevates. For the first time in her life, perhaps, Lydia is not the one in control of whatever may come of her new theoretical thrill. This shift in power dynamics gives the two-and-a-half-hour “Tár” somewhere to go.
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