Released 13 JANUARY
ANTICIPATION.
Very excited for Todd Field’s first film since 2006’s Little Children. 4
ENJOYMENT.
Unexpectedly funny and horrifying. Blanchett’s best performance in years. 4
IN RETROSPECT.
An unforgettable character in contemporary cinema. 5
eet Lydia Tár. She’s the chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, is soon to record Mahler’s 5th Symphony and is a fervent patron of staff writer Adam Gopnik (playing himself), on stage with his subject and reading the carefully constructed biography penned by Tár’s assistant Francesca (Noémie Merlant) at the Festival allowing Tár to promote upcoming book ‘Tár on Tár’. It’s clear that Lydia Tár takes herself very seriously, performing the perfect upper-middle-class artist to a room full of admirers. But it’s not all work. She lives in Berlin with her wife and concertmaster Sharon (the always great Nina Hoss) and their daughter Petra in a Brutalist-style apartment so cold, you’d think no one’s lived there for years. But it all comes crashing down when she’s accused of abusing her power to sleep with young female members of her orchestra, one of whom committed suicide.
