Storyline
Renowned musician Lydia Tár is days away from recording the symphony that will elevate her career. When all elements seem to conspire against her, Lydia's adopted daughter Petra becomes an integral emotional support for her struggling mother.
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Cast
Allan Corduner, Mark Strong, Alec Baldwin, Julian Glover, Sam Douglas, Cate Blanchett, Vincent Riotta, Lee R. Sellars, Nina Hoss, Ed White, Vivian Full, Lucie Pohl, Sydney Lemmon, Murali Perumal, Noémie Merlant, Artjom Gilz, Sophie Kauer, Mila Bogojevic, Sylvia Flote, Fabian Dirr, Christoph Tomanek, Frank Röth, Diana Birenytė, André Röhner, Jessica Hansen, Dorothea Plans Casal, Jan Wolf, Peter Hering, Marie-Lou Sellem, Marie-Anne Fliegel, Jasmine Leung, Chalee Sricharoen, Lydia Schamschula, Tilla Kratochwil, Adam Gopnik
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Reviews
100
TÁR is a provocation full of slow-motion suckerpunches and the driest of laughs (even its accented title is a knowingly pretentious in-joke) and yet Field seems as uninterested in trolling his liberal audience as he is in patronizing them.
100
The movie is breathtaking — in its drama, its high-crafted innovation, its vision. It’s a ruthless but intimate tale of art, lust, obsession, and power.
100
The film wields its intelligence and style with total effortlessness, and its every move holds your gaze like a baton’s quivering tip.
100
Tár marks yet another career peak for Blanchett — many are likely to argue her greatest — and a fervent reason to hope it’s not 16 more years before Field gives us another feature. It’s a work of genius.
100
TÁR is breathtaking entertainment, beautifully tailored in luxe, eerie Euro sleekness by production designer Marco Bittner Rosser and cinematographer Florian Hoffmeister, and ominously scored by Hildur Guðnadóttir (who gets a little meta shout-out in the film). That fine craftsmanship is all anchored by Blanchett’s alternately measured and ferocious performance, a tremendous (but never outsized) piece of acting that is her most piercing work in years.
