'Tar' Movie Review: Blanchett’s towering performance makes Tar unforgettable

Updated On: 10 March, 2023 04:42 PM IST | mumbai | Johnson Thomas

Tar comes on stage for a live New Yorker interview about her illustrious career - The conversation is a hard nut to crack, forbiddingly replete as it is, with esoteric technical citations

Tar

Film: Tar

Cast: Cate Blanchett, Noemie Merlant, Nina Hoss, Sophie Kauer, Julian Glover, Allan Corduner, Mark Strong

Director: Todd Field

Rating: 4/5

Runtime: 158 mins

Todd Field’s latest is a long-drawn… yes, but a brilliant character study of a magnificent musical polymath, a fictitious world-famous conductor of a major German orchestra, Lydia Tár (Blanchett), a woman very self-aware of her own rarefied talent and without any humility whatsoever. She chairs a scholarship fund run by an investment group headed by (Mark Strong) who is himself a hobbyist conductor. She is also about to release a book and is on the verge of completing her collection of Mahler recordings by performing his Fifth Symphony.

Tar comes on stage for a live New Yorker interview about her illustrious career - The conversation is a hard nut to crack, forbiddingly replete as it is, with esoteric technical citations. But that’s not important here. Tar’s verbosity is not what strikes you the most. The manner in which she holds herself and the minutest shifts in body language she displays, and the intonations she emits during the interview, speak volumes about the kind of person she is.

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