IMDb plot summary: Set in the international world of Western classical music, the film centers on Lydia Tár, widely considered one of the greatest living composer-conductors and the very first female director of a major German orchestra.
Directed by Todd Field. Starring Cate Blanchett, Noémie Merlant, and Nina Hoss.
Tár stars Cate Blanchett as Lydia Tár, an acclaimed orchestral conductor. We follow her as she completes one of her greatest goals, to record the last of a series of Mahler pieces that will complete a set, and we see the dismissive and manipulative ways in which she uses the people around her as means to an end. Cate Blanchett is fantastic here, really capturing the cold pretentiousness and self-involvement of her character, and while she's an unpleasant person, she's the kind you can't stop watching, which makes this 2.5 hour movie fly by. I'm not sure I got as much meaning out of this as a lot of the folks praising it, but it was definitely an interesting and thoughtful watch. I will say the final sequence was nearly incomprehensible to me as someone completely unfamiliar with what it was referencing, so I had to go look up what exactly was happening (my mind was going straight to some bizarre sci-fi answer!) but it made sense and resonated once I knew what was going on. Blanchett is the reason to see this one, and it's definitely worth it for her work.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Tár > The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)
Tár < Safe
Tár > The Romantics
Tár < The Mummy (1932)
Tár < 35 Up
Tár > Panic Room
Tár < The Exterminating Angel
Tár > Say Anything...
Tár > An Education
Tár < Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1982)
Tár < To Kill a Mockingbird
Tár > Oh Darling Yeh Hai India
Final spot: #1324 out of 3752, or 65%.
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