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Tár Movie Review

admin — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 16:16:54 +0000

Writer, director and producer Todd Field takes you on a wild ride with Tár, one that upon reaching the conclusion puts the previous journey in clearer focus. There are artistic choices along the way that require some afterthought as you are busy in the present deciphering the character’s actions and motivations.

Cate Blanchett is outstanding as the flawed Lydia Tár. She is a world-class composer-conductor as well as a celebrated author, but her life is one filled with pretension and manipulation. It’s fascinating to watch her hubris bring about her eventual downfall.

Field peppers the film with unusual artistic choices like running the closing credits first, having no music present during the first two reels and leaving out large chunks of exposition. This reductionism forces you to fill in more than a few blanks and makes you realise how many superfluous plot devices exist in most films of this nature. It’s daring and daunting often times simultaneously.

Predator or artist or maybe a bit of both? Cate Blanchett infuses Tár with the duality that blurs the line between manipulation and artistic bravado. This is mirrored by many of the director’s constructional and storytelling choices. By reducing some of the visual and expositional excesses it makes crystalline the artist’s vision.
Rob Hudson
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Watch the trailer for TÁR – in Australian cinemas January 26, 2023!

admin — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 16:01:14 +0000

TÁR, set in the international world of classical music, centers on Lydia Tár, widely considered one of the greatest living composer/conductors and first-ever female chief conductor of a major German orchestra.

Starring Cate Blanchett, Noémie Merlant, Nina Hoss, Sophie Kauer, Julian Glover, Allan Corduner, and Mark Strong, TÁR will be released in Aussie cinemas January 26 2023!
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Watch the new trailer for TÁR!

admin — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 16:20:07 +0000

From producer-writer-director Todd Field comes TÁR, starring Cate Blanchett as the iconic musician Lydia Tár.

TÁR examines the changing nature of power, its impact and durability in our modern world.

TÁR stars Cate Blanchett, Noémie Merlant, Nina Hoss, Sophie Kauer, Julian Glover, Allan Corduner, and Mark Strong, and will be relased in Australian cinema this coming January!
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