modmove » Nina Hoss http://modmove.com Australian Entertainment and Popular Culture in Review Wed, 12 Aug 2026 23:23:12 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.4 Tár Movie Review http://modmove.com/reviews/tar-movie-review/ http://modmove.com/reviews/tar-movie-review/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2023 16:16:54 +0000 http://modmove.com/?p=14397 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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]]> http://modmove.com/reviews/tar-movie-review/feed/ 0 Watch the trailer for TÁR – in Australian cinemas January 26, 2023! http://modmove.com/news/watch-the-trailer-for-tar-in-australian-cinemas-january-26-2023/ http://modmove.com/news/watch-the-trailer-for-tar-in-australian-cinemas-january-26-2023/#comments Sat, 08 Oct 2022 16:01:14 +0000 http://modmove.com/?p=14034 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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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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Anna is a bit of an enigma as she has the pieces of modern-day life that most would be satisfied with. A home, job, understanding husband, and precocious young child. Her centre is just slightly askew. Her job as a violin teacher at a Conservatoire gives her little confidence or pleasure.

 

 

When she comes into contact with a young student Alexander (Ilja Monti) she sees things in him that others don’t. Her obsession comes to full fruition and in so doing, she alienates all those around her including Alexander. The film presents these activities with little principled opinion and evil actions often have seemingly few consequences. You have to find a place in your own morality for this film’s message.
Rob Hudson

Presented by Palace, the German Film Festival will screen the best new films from Germany showcasing Festival favourites, works of auteurs and the best new talent.

This year’s programme, presented in association with German Films, will screen from 25 May – 20 June at Palace Cinemas across Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Byron Bay, Canberra, Perth and Adelaide.

The Audition is playing in Brisbane as part of the German Film Festival:

PALACE JAMES ST
Wednesday 2, June 1:15 PM
Saturday 5, June 5:15 PM
Friday 11, June 8:10 PM
Monday 14, June 11:00 AM

PALACE BARRACKS
Thursday 3, June 4:20 PM
Monday 7, June 11:00 AM
Wednesday 16, June 7:00 PM
Sunday 20, June 11:00 AM
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