Critic
In the New Movie TÁR, Cate Blanchett Takes on Cancel Culture: Review
The first film by Todd Fields in 16 years takes high culture down a few notches.
Cate Blanchett as star conductor Lydia Tàr.
Source: Focus Features
The new film TÁR introduces protagonist Lydia Tár (Cate Blanchett), a composer and conductor, as she sits onstage during an interview with the New Yorker’s Adam Gopnik.
Her resume gushes. Tár has won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony (EGOT), mentored under Leonard Bernstein, and done ethnographic research in the Amazon Basin. She’s the principal conductor at the Berlin Philharmonic and has just written a book with the self-aggrandizing title Tár on Tár. Next on the horizon is to record a wildly ambitious interpretation of Mahler’s Symphony No. 5.