- Music, Drama
- 158 min
- R
Rotten Tomatoes91%Metacritic93IMDb7.4
As celebrated conductor Lydia Tár starts rehearsals for a career-defining symphony, the consequences of her past choices begin to echo in the present.
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Contemporary, grave, contemplative and prestige.
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- unpretentiousprestige
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Jan 20237/10
Cate Blanchett is superb as the eponymous, ruthlessly focussed and highly accomplished, maestra who lives with her violinist wife "Sharon" (Nina Hoss) and young daughter "Petra" (Mila Bogojivic). Acclaimed by her peers, she is now the principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic. A job not without it's complications - she must select music, inspire musicians, and deal with her less then competent assistant "Sebastian" (Allan Corduner) who was a favourite of the previous occupant of her job "Davis" (Julian Glover) whilst juggling the ambitions of her funding partner "Kaplan" (Mark Strong). This spinning plates operation means she is constantly making compromises and that impacts on all of those around her. Frequently, she must rely on her assistant "Francesca" (Noémie Merlant) and it's around this relationship that we see some cracks start to appear in the otherwise formidable armour of "Tár". One of her erstwhile musicians has taken her own life - and subsequently the rumour mill starts to suggest that maybe, just maybe, there could have been an element of the good old casting couch mentality going on. No smoke without fire or totally made up? Well the last half of the film unfol
Read the whole review on TMDB - AstroNoudon TMDB · Mar 20235/10
The downfall of a great conductor (conductress??) could have been an interesting topic. But ‘TÁR’ is 2h38mins of leaving out major plot points and instead showing details in dreadful scenes that often don’t lead anywhere. The viewer has to make all this up for themselves, such as whether Tár is victim or culprit. In a way, this is all quite well done. Unfortunately, the film is too boring and incomprehensible to care. This being a film about conducting, I found Blanchett’s conducting style ridiculous, though she was good otherwise. At least the Mahler 5 excerpts sounded wonderful, and so let’s just conclude with that number as my rating. 5/10
Read the whole review on TMDB - Nathanon TMDB · Feb 20236/10
I wanted to like TÁR, but I just found it boring. Way too long and drawn out. I thought the story was decent with fantastic performances but it just did not work for me. I can appreciate it as a masterpiece in film making, even though I considered it a pretty poor watch. Score: 60% | Verdict: Decent
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Cast
- Cate BlanchettLydia Tár
- Nina HossSharon Goodnow
- Noémie MerlantFrancesca Lentini
- Sophie KauerOlga Metkina
- Julian GloverAndris Davis
- Mark StrongEliot Kaplan
- Sylvia FloteKrista Taylor
- Allan CordunerSebastian Brix
- Mila BogojevicPetra
- Adam GopnikAdam Gopnik
Crew
- Todd FieldDirector
- Todd FieldWriter
- Florian HoffmeisterDirector of Photography
- Hildur GuðnadóttirOriginal Music Composer
- Monika WilliEditor
- Scott LambertProducer
- Alexandra MilchanProducer
- Todd FieldProducer
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