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- 2022
- R
- Focus Features
- 2 h 38 m
- 2022
- R
- Focus Features
- 2 h 38 m
Summary Set in the international world of classical music, TÁR examines the changing nature of power and its impact and durability in our modern world through the life of iconic musician Lydia Tár (Cate Blanchett), the first-ever female chief conductor of a major German orchestra.
Directed By: Todd Field
Written By: Todd Field
- 2022
- R
- Focus Features
- 2 h 38 m
- 2022
- R
- Focus Features
- 2 h 38 m
Summary Set in the international world of classical music, TÁR examines the changing nature of power and its impact and durability in our modern world through the life of iconic musician Lydia Tár (Cate Blanchett), the first-ever female chief conductor of a major German orchestra.
Directed By: Todd Field
Written By: Todd Field
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 59 Critic Reviews
93
95% Positive
56 Reviews
56 Reviews
5% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 59 Critic Reviews
93
95% Positive
56 Reviews
56 Reviews
5% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
The genius of Todd Field’s superb Tár comes from the way the film-making echoes the treacherously seductive and mercurial nature of its central character.
It’s a total knockout, both austere and dryly hilarious, and its quality is impossible to consider separately from its colossal lead performance.
Because each moment serves at least two purposes — "Tár" is both a superb character study and a highly persuasive piece of world building — you may well find yourself marveling at Field’s economy.
The remarkable details in how information is revealed entirely through a central performance is the reason TÁR excites. Not what it has to say, but how it tells us the story through a dual execution of performance and writing preparation.
This tale of ambition and its cost — and its collateral damage — is Blanchett’s movie, and she delivers a tour de force in every scene.
We know where Tár is headed from pretty much its opening scenes, but that doesn’t mean that the film shouldn’t still surprise and shock us. Luckily, this is where Blanchett comes in, turning the movie from a moderately interesting and topical one into something quite beautiful. She brings the energy and the sensation that much of the rest of the film lacks.
Like its subject, the film is severe, dry and painfully serious, but in the closing seconds Mr. Field does, at last, deliver some relief with a visual joke that deals in a kind of cosmic comeuppance. It’s by far the best part of the movie, but it arrives too late to make much of a difference. Up to that point, “Tár” is like listening to a slow, ominous roll on the timpani for two and a half hours.
Production Company
Focus Features,
Standard Film Company,
EMJAG Productions
Release Date Oct 7, 2022
Duration 2 h 38 m
Rating R
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 6 Nominations
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
International Online Cinema Awards (INOCA)
• 2 Wins & 8 Nominations
